Isa and Jessie supervised the decorating, moving ornaments around so the larger ones hung on the back of the boughs and the smaller ones hung from the tips. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"Acoustics," he said, and grew smaller and smaller until he vanished through a door in the distance. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

When you get older and taller, everything else gets smaller. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put their faith there and let the smaller securities take care of themselves. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s one huge hall laid with light-green carpet for praying, a long and narrow dining room laid out with rows of tables and plastic chairs, and another smaller hall for Sunday school. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“My old man’s tough,” offered a smaller boy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

IX Lana Lee tore the newspaper into shreds and then tore the shreds into smaller shreds. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smaller room across the hall was almost identical, except the quilt was faded blue instead of white. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rigel was a blue star, smaller than Betelgeuse, Dad said, but even brighter. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

This patch was much smaller, and most of the bottles were intact and floated on the surface. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little younguns swarmed in this filth, the smaller of them stark naked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Like the Rusty Ruins, the neat row houses and gardens seemed much smaller to her now, an endless village of dollhouses. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Zeke may be smaller than Uriah, but he must be stronger. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while I look back, and each time the lighthouse beacon gets smaller and fainter. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Snow was smaller than Stone, a single fortified tower and a timber keep and stable hidden behind a low wall of unmortared rock. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A tall freckled boy with carrot-hued hair slicked back was holding a smaller dark haired boy in a headlock as the rest of the crowd laughed at the smaller boy’s efforts to free himself. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe the smaller figure of Nike came to life and busted out some ninja moves. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As he strode through the second-floor hallway he saw them: two dogs, a black Labrador and a smaller mixed breed, in a cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He directed her to capture smaller things: a seedling pine reaching upward from a crevice; a stone balanced on a tree stump. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In his big gold armchair, he looked much smaller than I had imagined him, looming as he always was from some wall or other. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As time went on, the hydrogen and helium gas in the galaxies would break up into smaller clouds that would collapse under their own gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes, they live in a wonderful city called Reality,” he announced, smashing into one of the smaller trees and sending a cascade of nuts and leaves to the ground. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The room seemed much smaller in the daylight. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Five smaller alleys branched off the main alley on both sides, and each of these small alleys was lined with brownstone town houses. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Notes with a close relationship have frequencies that can be written as a ratiol2 of two small whole numbers; the smaller the numbers, the more closely related the notes are. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

My opponent was a few years younger than me, smaller, and looked like he’d only been playing a year or two at most. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Out the back of the tent came two much smaller lines. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

At the last second, the smaller boy sounded the alarm—someone was coming! Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But the war, his arm, the course of things—it had all made his heart much smaller. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the past, objects far away had always appeared smaller than objects close by. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Within moments, they remove a block like a puke-green Hershey bar and break off smaller squares. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There are several different species—Levi was one of the smaller varieties. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The smaller of the two boy's was not even as old as Bo. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon the houses and the yards were smaller. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Instead of backing down, the smaller snake shows its fangs too. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Soojin doodles a heart and puts a bunch of smaller hearts inside it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The symbols of each faction are drawn there— Dauntless at the top of his spine, Abnegation just below it, and the other three, smaller, beneath them. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He could move as quickly as the huntsman became, although the latter had the experience of a life-time, he himself was smaller to get through obstacles and had, moreover, been taught by Maid Marian. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun sets, the moons rise again, smaller crescents than the night before. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They came to a smaller burrow, deeper underground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed to compress down into an even smaller version of herself so that she looked like an angry tree stump with short stubby branches for arms. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Art music is a catch-all term for any music that is enjoyed by a smaller crowd. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

William did so, turning his smaller friend with him like a rucksack. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The smaller girl had on a jacket the sleeves of which were so long that they came down to her knuckles. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

They had a bad start when the first tree fell, knocking down several smaller trees into Franca’s kitchen area. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Although our house was one of the smaller of the forty or so houses on the island, for several years we owned the only piano. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the Nazis took us, I've spent every minute trying to be invisible, to become smaller to avoid beatings, hiding in the safety of being last-chair viola. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had dimples, too, just like mine, and if it hadn’t been for his somewhat thicker eyebrows and smaller nose, we would have been able to pass for twins. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The doll looked so much smaller now that I was almost on top of it, as though I could pick it up in one hand. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He hated the sign that rested above the door: a large silver badge with a smaller, blue star in the center. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of a smaller tank, two Nereids—female sea spirits—sat cross-legged, facing each other, playing a game of Go Fish. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was carrying a tray with a large bowl, a serving spoon, and four smaller bowls on it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Lost in longing, Louie imagined himself on a train, rolling into country he couldn’t see, growing smaller and more distant until he disappeared. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Chains and a heavy padlock bound the double doors in front, so Seth moved along the side of the building, quietly trying the smaller doors. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She found a pair of black high heels with buckles smaller than a baby’s teeth. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was a smaller crowd than the mirror had attracted, but there was much more activity than Kendra would have expected around a small pool of milk. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He looked smaller than she remembered, but he would have been pained to hear that. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s a smaller X than she thinks, because she is a tiny bit curious. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The smaller ones left their dribbling mustard streaks to find their own way down. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were orchards and farms and groups of other, much smaller houses as well. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Downstairs I see kids my age, some younger ones too with their mothers, sitting at smaller tables, looking though books. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

For that matter, fielders’ gloves were smaller too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two more men drove after it another, smaller machine. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, she regularly caught francolins and doves, and she was able to snare smaller birds in the lime traps. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drew himself down until he looked smaller than ever. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just stood with her face getting smaller and smaller, and when you couldn’t see the airplane anymore she went in the house and lay down on her bed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been much smaller the last time he’d been here, but that didn’t change the way this place made him feel. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Until a bunch of smaller kids rush out of the next building. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then he filled it with smaller boxes until it looked exactly like an enclosed tic-tac-toe board, three rows of three squares, all the same size. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Valley ran to another, smaller entrance to the cave a few toadstools away and pointed at the ground. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

From the street below came the sound of traffic, the larger sound of the subway, the smaller, more varied sounds of voices. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood in a line with Betty Bright and the smaller substitutes, the kids who only go into the blowout games. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She squinted her eyes even smaller and shuffled in. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Then he and Pa hitched all the other horses, eight of them, to the smaller machine. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was your own name, slightly smaller, denoting that this was not about the individual, but the larger quest. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He is average-sized and prematurely gray, but by some contrivance of carriage and posture, he makes the men who stand before him feel smaller. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The flowers had been laid evenly to cover the mound of new-turned damp earth, and already the wind had frayed the blossoms and flung the smaller bouquets out into the path. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jackal finished his sheep more quickly, as it was much smaller. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I make a meal out of the smaller, bonier fish that inhabit the stream down here, fill every water container and purify it, and clean my weapons. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My apartment building, and everything else in my neighborhood, gets smaller and smaller as we continue to rise. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Harry went through the door out of the Great Hall and found himself in a smaller room, lined with paintings of witches and wizards. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I was smaller and maybe quicker, but with his long arms and his strength, Jack could have strung me from a lamppost. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

That it is so much smaller than what it would be in nature stands to reason. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The air is thick, and the rustle of the trees makes me feel like I’m way smaller than I really am. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He found pictures of his children when they were smaller, pictures from a vacation they’d all taken to Spain, pictures from their trip to Syria. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I’d hoist the biggest can onto the top of my head or ask someone nearby to help me, and then carry a smaller can in my hand. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After everyone becomes comfortable with the rhythm, create smaller groups of people on each line, and eventually assign the rhythm to just two people. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The distances were smaller, of course; shoreline families would move a fifteen-minute walk inland, to avoid direct exposure to winter storms and tides. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

An eighth of a foot...a sixteenth of a foot...a thirty-second of a foot...smaller and smaller distances, but Achilles never catches up. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The likelihood of any given person being killed in a terrorist attack is far smaller than the likelihood that the same person will clog up his arteries with fatty food and die of heart disease. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I glanced at the empty, smaller throne next to Hades’s. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As they approached the outer force field, it vanished, revealing a smaller domed field inside the first. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When she stood on the ground at last she seemed much shorter and smaller and her legs felt for a minute like they would crumple up with her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

True, the wounds still hurt, but with a different quality of pain: not the deep life-sapping ache of the day before, but a smaller, duller sensation. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

After a quick tour of the girls’ tent, which was slightly smaller than the boys’, though without the smell of cats, Harry, Ron, and Hermione set off across the campsite with the kettle and saucepans. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

This one was much smaller, though the ceiling was quite as high; it gave the claustrophobic sense of being stuck at the bottom of a deep well. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The train slows as it reaches the heart of the city, and I sit up to watch the smaller buildings grow into larger buildings. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Cora and Jasper might as well have been invisible most of the time, smaller than lint. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah?” he asks, picking up pieces of smaller glass caught in the grass that grows up through the cracks in the cement. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He thought the earth was a smaller sphere than it is. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I shrink down in my seat, trying to make myself smaller, hoping Sam’ll forget I’m there. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I stuffed them into my bag, along with one of the smaller hand towels. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

To their left, a long table was set for at least a dozen people, and a couple of smaller children sat on the long bench down one side. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was smaller than Madam and wore a silk gown the color of a mourning dove and gray lace gloves. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And her heart beat solemnly and her breathing slowed as she grew smaller and smaller and then disappeared—and she had never been. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Flora Baumbach appeared even smaller and rounder than she was as she sat twisting her napkin with hands accustomed to being busy. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the form of some creature like a mongoose, but red-gold in color and smaller. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I watched as he grew smaller and smaller, along with the sidewalk, the parking lot, the school, and the oversized stadium. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The next thing I know, Mom is coming out with her hair clamped back in barrettes, looking smaller than ever. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The hostess, a smaller blond woman, reached toward the stacks of menus next to her and asked if the boys wanted crayons. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone knows that the farther away an object is, the smaller it seems. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He closed it again and gestured toward the other, smaller drawers. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem with it getting tighter and smaller was that the people did, too, hiding it. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the ground rose several hours later, we came up on the rear of another, smaller party. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was probably the most beautiful city I’d ever seen: kind of like a smaller, cleaner Manhattan, if Manhattan had been surrounded by green hills and fog. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Swordfish was lagging once more, wallowing in the wake of the smaller ships to either side; elsewise the line was straight as a shield wall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He didn’t care if his opponent was bigger or smaller. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It took up most of the tiny cell, far smaller than my chamber at Elsinore. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Ali was much smaller than the white man, yet he knocked him out cold.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rounded the corner and ascended a small set of steps that led into a significantly smaller hallway. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I began to forget words, my vocabulary grew smaller, and I became very demanding. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now they were higher and smaller, settling at last into a mackerel sky like a beach at low tide. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keep splitting and you get neutrinos and quarks and muons and antiquarks and mesons—on and on and on, smaller and smaller and smaller. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clover City feels even smaller and more removed without my Jolene. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In short, Holland looked like Indianapolis, only with smaller cars. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Subdividing a beat by three instead of four naturally makes each of the new smaller beats slightly longer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A big, L-shaped couch takes up most of the living room, along with a big TV, but smaller than the one we have at home. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Last year at this time, Mango was smaller than the squirrels were, and they used to chase him all around the backyard. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She was smaller and frailer than her sister, but her hair was long and still golden. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They seemed smaller again, and I didn't see any wings on the Persian. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The stone steps trembled as he stomped toward his smaller kin, and Grawp’s lopsided mouth fell open, showing yellow, half-brick-sized teeth; and then they launched themselves at each other with the savagery of lions. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Folsom points, by contrast, are smaller and finer—perhaps two inches long and an eighth of an inch thick—and usually have a less prominent tail. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It opened direct into a large chamber, with other smaller doors at the far end, and a hearth and chimney at one side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“But then it started falling off. The school’s not good for me. There’s too many distractions. I need to go to a smaller environment where I can focus.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On July 6, nearly finishing her research, she made a handwritten note in a hybrid of script and cursive, letters smaller and neater and more right-leaning than in her diary. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Americas had two empires, those of the Aztecs and Incas, which resembled their Eurasian counterparts in size, population, polyglot makeup, official religions, and origins in the conquest of smaller states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Going swiftly to the candles, they grasped them, two in each hand; Will, smaller, leapt hastily on a chair to seize the last. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m just a kid, so Dad gives me one of those smaller basketballs and lowers the adjustable rim. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to call him the Lipless Wonder. All he does is beat up superheroes smaller than him and the only thing he’s afraid of is a cold mirror!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She forgot that she was smaller than Cathy and had nursed every one of her own children. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He began to talk again, not to the boy, but to a plant that was smaller than the others. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pit in my stomach becomes just a little smaller. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In diameter it was perhaps one hundred feet, and, suspended in its dead center was a smaller sphere of perhaps twenty feet diameter. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It would feel funny to trust someone smaller than herself to hold her down. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My birthday party turned out to be much smaller than I thought it would be, but it was still great. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Janice Avery, who among all the seventh graders was the one person who devoted her entire life to scaring the wits out of anyone smaller than she, was right behind him. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Harfoots were browner of skin, smaller, and shorter, and they were beardless and bootless; their hands and feet were neat and nimble; and they preferred highlands and hillsides. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Can you get some of the smaller girls to give up a few pieces of clothing each?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Soon it grew smaller and smaller, until it was swallowed by the night. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Santa Claus is at the end, smaller than expected. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When they’ve tiptoed out and shut the door, the knock comes again, and I peek out the smaller window beside the door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The village sat on top of a sharply rising hill preceded by many smaller ones. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I mean, I was used to seeing him get higher and higher and smaller and smaller. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Living in a house smaller than what we got in the projects? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then smaller metallic threads started weaving together magically between the main strands, making a net. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the two families lived inside it, the house was smaller than most of the homes in west Austin where Armpit planted shrubs and installed irrigation systems. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Just smooth sand with rocks smaller than half a meter. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

One bedroom was bigger, but the smaller one had more windows, so that’s where I dropped my stuff. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

But then all of a sudden her smile got a little smaller. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“It probably won’t work outside your apartment, because the magnetic field of the bed gets smaller the farther you get from it, but still.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The land dripped with richness, the fat cows and pigs gleaming against green, and, in the smaller holdings, corn standing in little tents as corn should, and pumpkins all about. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I may be smaller naturally, but overall my family's resourcefulness has given me an edge in that area. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I roll my eyes, and we walk out of a smaller palace exit. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

For chairs, we used some smaller spools and a few crates. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was like martial law had been declared: The smaller kids couldn’t go anywhere without an escort, the older ones traveled in pairs, and Miss Peregrine had to know where everyone was at all times. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

This clock, like all the others, had weights, too, but much smaller ones, which disappeared into the floor. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The fairies he knew had looked different, smaller but stronger, with fair blue skin and four shimmering wings. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Africa has smaller areas of tropical rain forest than does Southeast Asia, and no temperate habitats at all beyond latitude 37 degrees. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Otto had calmed somewhat and was preoccupied with trying to bring the smaller bonobo back to life, lying next to her and murping, blowing on her mouth, trying to get her to react. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As he spoke, he picked up one of his smaller jars and very quickly tipped the struggling thrashing trogglehumper out of the large jar into the small one. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four smaller gold thrones lined up in a row on a lower level. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Compensating for this possible disadvantage, and its smaller size, the starship would provide one important feature the earth cannot. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled and pulled and finally made it by rowing in smaller and smaller circles and making the circles come near the wharf. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything felt different—smaller and bigger at the same time. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The sweet smell of baking and vanilla had drawn the smaller children from the stove to the edge of the table. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around his body were smaller sculptures of women in pairs, their hips thrust to one side. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The other was smaller and made of silver. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched it get smaller and smaller until it disappeared from sight in the rearview mirror. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A patchwork quilt of green and brown fields surrounded a huge barn and a slightly smaller house. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There were four kinds of monkeys in addition to the baboons, and many smaller animals such as squirrels and mongooses. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I got a little more play with some of the other news sites, smaller local outfits. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Purses were often smaller than the cost of shoeing a horse—about $1.40. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about this made Raymie’s soul even smaller and her toes even stiffer. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

And the Mustang was smaller and handier than the station wagon. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The first rule was to find someone smaller and weaker and take what he had. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The superintendent would exchange the old policy for a new one which was identical in color, serial number, and beneficiary, but which carried much smaller payments. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like the black shade of a horse led by a smaller black shadow. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In a slightly smaller font beneath these words, it says: Join our new group for young activists, get involved with local politics, and create the change you wish to see! The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I could still see him kneeling there, carving something into one of ’em with a smaller rock. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Another door opened, and in walked a little girl, smaller and younger than all of us. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

In composition and in many other respects Saturn is similar to Jupiter, although smaller. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a word they both hopped out and set to work, Joe scavenging bigger logs that burned well in his shop’s heater, Nancy gathering smaller branches that would fit easily into the kitchen stove. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Handing him a smaller pile of bills, Charles said, “And this is to say thank you.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Most souls go that way, but there’s a smaller path, harder to find. The Door of Orpheus.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Jabir picked up one of the smaller ones and cradled it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Dicey and James were tall enough to touch bottom, but the water was over the heads of the smaller children. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The very big ones—you noticed it most with the elephants—grew a little smaller. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

This place opened into another, which was smaller and so dark I could see nothing. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing so bold as all that. But we could do smaller things. Simpler things.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A smaller blue shield glows around his moving arm. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were a few boxes on the seat, and smaller ones on the floor. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

But as the old man peered through his dirty window, two girls were pulling a much smaller boy through a hole in the fence. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the smaller oak and maple trees, which from Dr. Hyde’s classroom had been invisible beneath the more majestic pines, showed hints of an as- yet-thermally-unforeseeable fall: Their still-green leaves were beginning to droop. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But in other places it ran straight for a considerable distance and he followed it, through smaller lakes and what he thought must be swamps, through the darker green portions that meant heavier forest. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

However, Pygmies differ from blacks in their much smaller size, more reddish and less black skins, more extensive facial and body hair, and more prominent foreheads, eyes, and teeth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mains was the most distinctive building of the lot: it covered nearly an acre and a half and looked like it had been cobbled together from a number of smaller, mismatched buildings. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She nodded and let Bitter take her to her room, let her mother tuck her into bed the way she used to when Jam was smaller. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Nothing much had changed in more than a year, although the rooms seemed smaller and more cluttered. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She could feel the three ridges—and some smaller ones, but nothing, nothing— Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

For obscure places or sailings out of season, he had to make do with passage to someplace near his destination and complete his journey aboard smaller coastal craft or overland. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The other was in much better shape, with smaller, hairline cracks and a newer net. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Crooks seemed to grow smaller, and he pressed himself against the wall. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, Weaver counseled, there would be no point in building a smaller cyclotron now, if everything might be won simply by sitting out a prudent delay. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Without her heels, she looks smaller than small. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Out back is a small garage for the car we don’t own yet and a small yard that looks smaller between the two buildings on either side. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes the larger of the two knives, and I take the smaller one. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She patted his back, her head leaning against his smaller one, her eyes closed. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The apartment Jesse had put a deposit on wasn’t available; they had to take a smaller one. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were one, two, three smaller holes bordering the top of the hole where Seven stood. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe smaller in size, the family, not the house, but still a family lives there. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A smaller, soft green rug lies atop the carpet. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

For a split second Frank thought he’d be crushed under the weight of the massive assault rifle, but the gun changed in midair, becoming smaller and thinner. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Chase filled a smaller pot and carefully measured the water out over my sunflower. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was nothing they could do but stand there like fools and watch her shape get smaller in the sky—a distant moon, a fading star, then gone. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The pool was fed by waterfalls from other smaller pools. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Out of the other door came a long slim shape, and another, and another smaller, and then a whole quick row of them. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but a smaller one than he imagines, for a smaller service. Which of these lands will you consent to part with?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It went on too long, and with every new bite of laughter, Lazlo felt himself grow smaller. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Like a king in his own domain, it towered far above the smaller trees. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had likely set the snare for smaller game, like macaque monkeys or antelope, but they’d be happy to eat a bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was much smaller, and made of canvas cloth. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I know it’s only been five months, but you look smaller. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Horse pulled Hop-Robin to his feet, and the smaller boy made a clumsy bow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad sat together on the smaller sofa, talking together quietly. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The smaller ones—the rabbits, moles, and such-like—grew a good deal larger. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

With her were two smaller versions of herself, but without the rouge. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He woke to the sound of one of the smaller cows in the herd being attacked by a hyena. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

No flagship state university has a smaller proportion of low-income students than Virginia. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Many of the poorer newly arrived migrants preferred the more down-to-earth experience of smaller, unadorned storefront churches squeezed in among businesses on the commercial strips. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When I saw the four-roomed house, I was surprised by how much smaller and humbler it was than I remembered it being. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were smaller, fainter scars where at one time his cheeks had been stitched. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A smaller team of eight agents moved in to catch the KGB mole. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He marked off a piece much smaller and sunk the blade in. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The beginnings of the trench were already perilously close to the two smaller containers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger felt that even though her face was smaller and smoother than his mother’s, the beginning of the same tiredness was already there. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the greater part of the work of oxidation is performed in a theater far smaller, in tiny granules within the cell called mitochondria. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A little girl with a much smaller broom, helping. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was higher up and much smaller than the classroom windows, but we’d still be able to drop our eggs out of it. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He understood in that moment that he was smaller than he had ever known, and the realm of the unknowable was bigger. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

At one point Stirling and a colleague hitched a ride in a pepper truck to one of the smaller sites. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Not far from the house, off to one side, was a smaller building, whose double doors were also closed. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was what her own father had said, but his flock had been much smaller than Cutler’s, so their family had felt the pinch years sooner. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell it wasn’t going to go as high as the smaller Auk XIV. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The smaller cub doesn’t even manage to struggle—he is enclosed in a dark, noisome place, and swung upward. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Gargantuan sloths had foraged where smaller sloths now resided. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her shoulders were sunk down, and her face was red, and somehow she looked even smaller than before. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

But the one that catches his eye is smaller, as is the tent on which it hangs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Whatever was affecting his mood, Nathan was smaller than it, and it was winning. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We were going to our new home—a smaller town in the countryside called Duvall. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four substantial cities—Trenton, Camden, Wilmington, and Philadelphia—and scores of smaller communities stood downstream. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then Sor Milagros, who was in charge of the tens through twelves, took our smaller group upstairs into the dormitory hall we would share. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For they are a little people, smaller than Dwarves: less stout and stocky, that is, even when they are not actually much shorter. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But when he took out the piece of tinder, it was no more than a stub, smaller than a candy bar. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her frame seemed smaller than it did a few weeks earlier. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It did one circuit of the stadium, then split into two smaller comets, each hurtling toward the goalposts. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They must have only been taken from the bigger camps, not the smaller ones that had been cobbled together farther west. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The colt sagged inward, muscling his shoulder and hip into the smaller Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teachers never took Stanley's complaints seriously, because Derrick was so much smaller than Stanley. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Hard to tell at night, but if anything those towns looked to be getting even smaller. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crawlway grew smaller yet, and I foolishly let one of my arms get pinned to my side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We turned a corner, and from the sound of the wheels echoing against the walls I guessed we had passed down a tunnel and into a smaller room. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The way the ground would get smaller and smaller until it disappeared completely. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“It makes sense. I suppose that means it’s important to love as much as possible. You know—so the hate that can’t get rendered into something else is smaller and weaker that way.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were just a bit smaller than crows, moving in migration in large, sometimes huge, flocks. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He would thus have been familiar with the basic principle that objects appear smaller as they recede into the distance, a principle analysed by Euclid, and familiar in the Middle Ages. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I catch a glimpse of the ground, three stories down, the bricks smaller than they should be, the lines of Candor Jeanine enslaved. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She would take a sip from the bottle and she would grow smaller and smaller. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Justice Department sometimes forces the breakup of a large corporation into several smaller companies. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Mark shined his light and noticed that the group between them and the door of the chamber was the smaller of the two, maybe eight people total. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

If they are over ten times farther away, the gravity is ten squared, 102 = 100 times smaller. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned onto a walkway bordering one of the smaller canals. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The data also show that smaller offices are more honest than big ones. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Fiver seemed to grow even smaller as he flattened himself on the hard earth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all seemed to be making an effort and doing their best, although the smaller rabbits—especially Pipkin—clearly found the task an awkward one. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

To make the fraction smaller, I know that both numbers are multiples of five. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

"Turn, dear," said Flora Baumbach, the dressmaker, who lived and worked in a smaller apartment on the second floor. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’d be nice, wouldn’t it,” said Ben, with a smile for the smaller boy. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As we make that box smaller and smaller, we know less and less about the particles’ energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He even seemed smaller to Prosper, but that may have been because of the huge house or because he wasn't wearing his high-heeled boots. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sub-Saharan Africa has fewer candidates, 51 species, just as it has fewer species in most other plant and animal groups—because it’s smaller and ecologically less diverse than Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the pile of drawings grew smaller, Joseph prayed the story wouldn’t end before he could finally find out what happened to Leo. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The second and third worms Cole found were smaller, and he ate them quickly. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The truck fell behind them, the lights grew smaller, then disappeared forever in the middle of the third decade of the rosary. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This year the glasses are smaller, but everyone is happy to be together. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Nhamo checked Crocodile Guts’s rope again and the smaller rope she had made. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that the giant’s table and chair towered far above the smaller table simply could not be helped. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One girl my age got a large coloring book of biblical characters, while a less greedy girl who selected a smaller box received a glass vial of lavender toilet water. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scraped off the butter, cut the bread into thinner slices, and then spread the butter on each smaller piece. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Their passes were crisp, and they chipped their way downfield, using their elbows to control the movements of the younger, smaller team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I gnawed at the vitamin until it stopped looking so huge, and the cage got smaller, and then suddenly, hang! The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Remember that the bigger the number, the smaller the risk, and that for every unit increase in the safety index, the risk declines by a factor of 10. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire flickered and threw strange shadow patterns on his hands, making them seem bigger, then smaller. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He looked smaller in his office than he did in the lecture hall, and more shiny: the light above his desk reflected off his head and glasses. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Alfyn’s member was a wee thing, even smaller than yours, but he was never shy with where he stuck it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Our house seemed smaller when we walked in, and it smelled different than I remembered it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The Chevalier Tialys had spoken to Salmakia before skimming ahead, and Will and Lyra watched the dragonfly with eyes greedy for its brightness and vigor as it got smaller and smaller. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He is smaller than Fenrir, but he is still the mightiest and most dangerous of all dogs. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He looked large and coarse, the Japanese man smaller and clear-eyed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then at last my child was born, a nicely formed boy, smaller than the others had been, but of course I was older now. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the smaller rock and scraped in a message of my own, right under Mong’s. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The space was smaller than many American living rooms, and jammed with double-decker beds and a few clotheslines. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was a small campus, with narrow brick walkways and white pillared buildings, located on the fringes of what seemed to be an even smaller town. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Boo looked as if he was trying to make himself smaller on top of Mini’s head. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The scene was reminiscent of Birmingham, only on a smaller scale. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed older that morning, and leaning quietly against that great tree wrapped in his heavy coat, he seemed smaller too. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of having fluctuating populations that periodically outran their resources and starved, they maintained smaller populations that enjoyed an abundance of food in good years and a sufficiency in bad years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Why did the human societies of the larger landmass derived from Pleistocene Greater Australia remain so “backward” in their development, while the societies of the smaller landmass “advanced” much more rapidly? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“This one is a leakage of blood in the brain. Certain areas of the brain are affected. There have been earlier smaller leakages. Lee knows that.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a stunned silence—broken by a wail of terror from the smaller boy, who flung himself at his mother—and then a quick excited chatter from the Indians. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the main building, a string of smaller cubes had been added in a crooked path out the back. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The other farm, which was called Pinchfield, was smaller and better kept. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Half a year later, Victor did put Scipio's name on his door, although he put it in slightly smaller letters. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The huge moon rose and the smaller mold-colored moon and they were joined by a ruby-red moon, and the grey wolf ran at a steady lope beneath them across the desert of bones. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“You’re smaller, so you can probably get to the clue quicker,” says Dylan. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The very low rainfall and productivity of most of Australia makes it effectively even smaller as regards its capacity to support human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Poppy pointed out the old refugee camp down the smaller road behind the house—it had been one of the first ones from 1948. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Because there are an infinite number of steps, the Greeks assumed that the race would go on forever and ever, even though the steps get smaller and smaller. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Luckily, I was allowed to visit a smaller mill at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The white cottage and the three figures grew smaller. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Theodor, in a series of elegant experiments, has shown that when two individuals of the same species are placed in close contact, the smaller of the two will always begin to disintegrate. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basin floor was rumpled with smaller hills, golden plains, and stretches of forest. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

So, the crowd got smaller and the fighting just seemed to fade out. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, as we shall learn in the next chapter, black holes are not really black after all: they glow like a hot body, and the smaller they are, the more they glow. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other smaller specialist groups existed, in which boys learned how to signal in Morse code, operate antiaircraft weaponry, provide first aid and practical field medicine, perform air-raid warden duties, and handle other weapons. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rows of candles flicker on either side of me in the smaller arms of the church. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

And though he was much smaller, he managed to win. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Red Gate is a much smaller house than Clairmont, but it still has four bedrooms up top. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I was shown into another room, smaller and stuffier still, windowless and airless. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little Eva continued playing with her nesting dolls, opening a larger doll to take out a smaller one and holding it in front of the peephole for Jinx to see. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And, indeed, their mouths were so wide open with astonishment that Mr. Wigg, if he had been a little smaller, might almost have fallen into one of them. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I tuck a smaller fragment of the rock into my pocket and start climbing back up the cliff face. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

We went over the part of the bridge that wasn’t in any borough, and I turned around and watched the buildings get smaller. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even smaller numbers accompanied the Court's decisions banning the death penalty for non-homicide offenses. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Saint took me to America, where I lived in houses smaller than the one in the country. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

You find, on making the test, that the larger ball beats the smaller one by two inches. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I've been trying to make them look smaller by squashing them into bras that are two sizes too small. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The best thing is bright shiny tin. Cut out some little round pieces, a little smaller than this bit. Do you understand?” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I found a carving of a lamb in the cottage, like the one on the grave marker but smaller,” I said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the smaller children rushed to break off elephant-ear leaves for umbrellas, but most of us simply stayed where we were, receiving the downpour. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Phineas was resting his cast, which was a considerably smaller one now, on the desk and thoughtfully pressing designs into it with a pocket knife. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next door is a smaller room, the bedroom and study of the two young ladies of the family. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A small job here, a smaller job there. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She looked, if it was possible, even smaller and younger than she had before. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We finally reach the French port, and once all the smaller groups of refugees converge, we're four thousand strong. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He built her face in front of him and studied her wide-set eyes, delicate nostrils, mouth smaller than he liked but sweet, small firm chin, and back to her eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

About thirty feet down, the tunnel split into four smaller arteries, each one identical, but the one on the left radiated cold. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He grew smaller and smaller, and then we turned a corner and he was gone. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If the carpet covers the stain entirely, we know that the stain is smaller than the carpet; if the carpet is one square foot, then the stain must take up less than one square foot. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But how much smaller, and how the nozzle worked, and how to build one, we had no idea. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of him towered the Yard’s great gate, a wide center arch flanked on either side by ornately carved turrets and two smaller gates. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My sister hated her nose, too—hers was smaller but more rotund than mine—and my parents agreed that something needed to be done about it. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

One of 'em told him that fancy restaurants paid lots of money for this baby lettuce, smaller than the regular kind, to use in rich folks' salads. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boat was smaller, like a black shadow on the water. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Its shell was smaller, lighter, and made for a better shield. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

On a smaller scale, the electrical forces that cause the electrons to orbit round the nucleus in an atom would behave in the same way as gravitational forces. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a lot of hustling and cajoling, Kate got Constance moving, then quick-stepped it to the cafeteria with the smaller girl riding piggyback. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just saying,” apologized the smaller boy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he gingerly applied the medicine, she cleaned and bound a series of smaller wounds and forced an uncooperative Vikus to let her wrap his wrist. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Was it more efficient than using a lot of smaller bombs? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Going swifdy to the candles, they grasped them, two in each hand; Will, smaller, leapt hastily on a chair to seize the last. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bunch of little boys, smaller than even me, come toward us, dressed as a pack of cowboys. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The room felt smaller than usual, like the four of us were in a closet together. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

As the universe gets smaller and smaller, it heats up more and more. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The bright eyes peering out from under a cloud of unruly brown curls are smaller, wider versions of the magician’s own. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

After they got the two smaller kids uncostumed and sent home, they sat on April’s bed and stared at each other gloomily. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spread it out flat and filled it with smaller pieces and bits of ash and whatever dirt I scooped up along with them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath them lay the buildings of the Golf Club—the huge Lower Caste barracks and, on the other side of a dividing wall, the smaller houses reserved for Alpha and Beta members. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived in a smaller hotel with the other people who worked for Romero. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

When it came to apportioning work on an aptitude basis, the smaller girls were assigned to dust the legs and lower shelves of furniture; the older girls to dust table tops and upper shelves. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a girl, but smaller than Arya, her skin dappled like a doe’s beneath a cloak of leaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In two smaller sepulchres on either side were his children. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Next, we were going to The Children’s Home for a smaller dessert party, which only served to remind me that I could get sent back there anytime. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

This frightened all the smaller animals, who feared that the lion would eat them. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Lines divide the map into smaller squares, with letters along the top and numbers down the side to form a grid. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He counted the distance as it grew smaller. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The pits were just a little smaller than the cells, dug down the height of a grown man. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scuff downstairs and into a smaller room with round tables and shorter bookshelves. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps there are smaller forms in every rock and sand grain. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was three or four inches shorter than I was and proportionately smaller. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was smaller than Shadow, but he seemed to take up a hell of a lot of room. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The view of the Pirate’s Den minimizes to a smaller screen in the corner of my vision, one that will appear over the center of my view whenever I glance down at it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And his voice is smaller, softer than I’ve ever heard it before. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had to buy shoes one size smaller, shorten his trousers, and have a tuck taken in his shirtsleeves. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Maggie, in the stern, looked smaller than she ever had. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

As the air began to cool, the rabbits woke and first one and then another came down the runs that led from the smaller burrows. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hale toiled day and night for a pittance; he rode through storms—hail, lightning, sand—and survived stampedes, guiding the cattle into smaller and smaller circles before they could trample him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Ethyne was smaller than both of the soldiers. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It’s like Achilles and the tortoise—an infinite series of steps, each getting smaller and smaller. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The simple intervals are one octave or smaller. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Finally they wandered south of downtown, into a plaza surrounded by smaller glass and brick buildings. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I have smaller feet, so the logs will feel bigger. I’ll keep my balance easier.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Three figures, two large, one smaller, but only one of them was in focus, was more than an outline or a shimmer. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Kenny was standing in the smaller room that led off the main one. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says, “His hands were smaller than mine.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I flip through each page, watching my handwriting get smaller and neater as the years go by. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Now my grandmother shushes him, Daddy resting in the bedroom, the covers pulled up to his chin, his thin body so much smaller than I remember it. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The House tables had vanished; instead, there were about a hundred smaller, lantern-lit ones, each seating about a dozen people. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“First you go small,” said he, pressing him on the top of his head until he was a bit smaller than a pigeon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow her gaze also took in Chess, making him feel both smaller and younger. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The smaller squirt spilt his books too as he bent down to help. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Back in those days, the Big Top Mall was smaller. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Nine men received smaller rewards for their part in the capture of George Atzerodt, ten for their roles in the arrest of Lewis Powell. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a number of strides, Achilles would be taking tiny steps that can’t get any smaller; eventually he would have to hurdle an atom that the tortoise doesn’t. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The smaller children, who had been pushed to the back of the crowd by bigger ones, scurried to the front. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Over the past 13,000 years the predominant trend in human society has been the replacement of smaller, less complex units by larger, more complex ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a play set inside, two long logs that look like they could’ve come from the fallen trees at Axel’s own house, and a bunch of smaller stumps. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Hamadryad turned then to Jane and Michael, and with a little shiver they saw that his face was smaller and more wizened than anything they had ever seen. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

"The castle won't grow no smaller, I promise you that, only now there'll be fewer hands to tend to it. You lot of slugabeds are going to learn what work is now, yes you are." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was sure that if he let the smaller boat go, it would never be seen again. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I want to be smaller; I want to disappear. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hacked it into smaller pieces and flung them back as well. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She went back to cutting the peaches and pears into smaller and smaller pieces. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The man in the dark coat had given up on rattling the main gates and was now examining the smaller side gate. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She limped slightly, as though one leg were shorter than the other, a gait that made her seem even smaller than she was. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were smaller than I thought they would be. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Constance could think of a grumpy reply, Kate had tied the ladder to her belt and hoisted the smaller girl upon her back. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the taillights get smaller and smaller, I try to visualize myself hitting shot after shot, but I keep missing open jumpers, even in my mind. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As the time interval grew smaller and changed from minutes to seconds, the tension increased by leaps and bounds,” recalled General Farrell. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The table was lower, the fireplace smaller, and the place was a mess. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Inside the large envelope is a letter and a smaller envelope. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As the days went by, the headlines about the terrible thing that had happened near Orchard Avenue got smaller and smaller. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regulus’s bedroom was slightly smaller than Sirius’s, though it had the same sense of former grandeur. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the pickup, on the way home from school, Dad had told me to check the smaller creeks off the river. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I stared at the back of his neck, which was not covered by the pimples, and it looked different, too—smaller, with thinner folds of skin. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The house behind him looked smaller than it had when he’d arrived, as if it were already receding into the past. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In one of the smaller claims, an Illinois man complained that his frightened wife had a nervous breakdown and was incapacitated for a month. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It makes the city smaller in my mind. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was useless to turn and fight; this was no stupid bear who could be intimidated, but a creature as remorseless and cunning as the cat himself could be, to other smaller animals. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So what you need to do is make the space smaller. Make it worse so it gets better. Right?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then she had loosened the earth and weeded with Mama’s big moose antler hoe and her own smaller hoe carved from a crooked tree branch. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A perfect cube made up of smaller cubes. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He watched as it receded into the distance, growing smaller and smaller until it seemed to just float there, frozen in place, like a model plane hanging from a wire. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Thirty-six of our smaller ships had been sunk by the kamikazes and about four hundred more had been damaged by the attacks. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the smaller side, I like my eyes but hate my nose, but I don’t think my nose is what’s making me feel this way. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A diminished interval is one half step smaller than the perfect or minor interval. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Off the big chamber and one step down was a smaller room designed as a dressing room. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some scythes prefer big cities; I prefer smaller towns,” Scythe Curie said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, the Greeks just saw the terms as simply getting smaller and smaller, meandering outside the realm of numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A large one in the center of town occupied four streets, and another smaller one extended over several alleyways on the outskirts of town. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's lined with shelves of twinkling apothecary bottles, and smaller tables hold even more. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Negro Digest is smaller, but it has a lot of neat articles. I like it,” Suesetta says. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He argued that running for a smaller purse was preferable, because fans would know the race was truly a matter of sport. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smaller shape, the woman, said, “You have to administer tests.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of driving, we come to a house with a main entrance and two smaller entrances on each side. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The flashing lights is getting smaller, the dog barking fading off. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The office is large but looks smaller than it is due to the volume of its contents. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had carved it out of a smaller tree, he said, and it fitted his shoulders neatly. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

As the series goes on, the ratios get smaller and the notes closer together. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In recent years the even smaller deviations of the orbits of the other planets from the Newtonian predictions have been measured by radar and found to agree with the predictions of general relativity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lower and lower the dragon flew, in great spiraling circles, honing in, it seemed, upon one of the smaller lakes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The house was smaller than the one we’d had, so I had to room with my brother still—and there wasn’t a bedroom for Lucas if he came home. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Powers's new prison cell, which he shared with a political prisoner from Latvia, was even smaller than his previous one. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

These were smaller heads, and the faces were younger. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made the new words smaller, so more could fit. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The smaller pack, more worn than the other, dangled from Jules’s hand like offal. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mama Joe’s shed in Ogige market just barely fit the high stool where she sat and the smaller stool in front of her. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Carved from the base of the Wall and closed with heavy wooden doors, the ice cells ranged from small to smaller. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The hardness in his gaze was new, and the eyes were smaller and narrower, and in the corners were the firm prints of crow’s feet. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

From the comer of my eye I saw him, a figure growing smaller and smaller until I left him behind me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An ugly brown carpet lay on the floor, and on it stood a large armchair covered in itchy-looking red material, and several smaller chairs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time I had brought along large meat-filled dumplings and other smaller pastries filled with various kinds of ground meat and shrimp. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the solar system is all explored, we will probably have evidence for impact catastrophism on all nine worlds, from Mercury to Pluto, and on all the smaller moons, comets and asteroids. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the smaller kids loved to handle that rifle. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The advent of cooking enabled humans to eat more kinds of food, to devote less time to eating, and to make do with smaller teeth and shorter intestines. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” the fish said, “but much smaller, the size of a copper coin.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s usually the smaller animals that are dangerous around here. Like barracudas. Those things are nasty.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"We pay you for the truth, Lord Varys. Remember that, or this small council may grow smaller still." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The breeze had died down, leaving the night muggy and hot, and Ophie felt the smaller hairs that had pulled free from her braids curling up. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

My heart started going very fast, but I wasn’t really worried they would hit Sal because it is officially beneath them to hit smaller kids. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The stars give a smaller light than campfires. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After half an hour we reached a cleared field where stands had been erected for giants and smaller peoples. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The smaller boys were known now by the generic title of "littluns." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

On the floor is a smaller bed, with tiny wheels on it like you’d find on a suitcase. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps the smaller things—like human beings, for example—can also change and affect the bigger things in the universe.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He looks handsome in his suit—not Scott handsome, he’s smaller and paler, and his eyes are a little too close together when you see him up close, but he’s not bad. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The minor interval is always a half-step smaller than the major interval. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He could smell wild flowers growing in the weeds and grass beside the road, and he heard the big bumblebees and the smaller bees sucking the blossoms. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The plane got smaller but then circled back. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice was smaller than she wanted it to be. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He carries smaller volumes with him at all times, transcribing them into larger ones once they are filled. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She put Ulysses down on her bed, and he looked even smaller sitting there in the bright overhead light. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The surrounding beach was peppered with smaller pieces of burning wreckage. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And as Lee turned the telescope on it again, he saw darker, smaller shapes behind it in the shimmering distance. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is represented by the curve on the smaller of Dr. Gazzaley’s computer monitors. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In spite of her new weapons, Nhamo’s food supply grew smaller as the dry season struck with full force. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon they smarten up, and Blade says, "Smaller rocks! Get me smaller rocks!" and I know in my heart we're doomed. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Everything looked the same except that the desks and chairs seemed a lot smaller. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They stepped into the room and walked up to a smaller pile. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My hands are smaller than his, but it’s like he’s shrinking, losing his muscle mass. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The absurdity is plain: he remains smaller than most of the fourteen-year-olds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

This created corners and smaller spaces within the larger room. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Reggie thought of him as a smaller man physically, in his late fifties, with a mustache, wearing a suit and tie. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Next to her stands a smaller girl with pale skin and a smattering of freckles, her hair in pigtails. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I can’t tell you how happy I was that night,” he tells me, his voice even smaller now, hard to hear over all the cicadas and the river and the breeze rustling through the trees. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Turner stood, and it suddenly seemed to him that his father was much smaller than he had been before. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t think so because six parts of nine is smaller than two parts of three. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He looked odd without his great white side whiskers; smaller somehow, less fierce, and ten years older. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s things like making the handles smaller and the grips closer together,” she said. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She noted the obvious set of large double doors in the front, along with some smaller access doors along the side. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The noise seemed to undo the fearful shock that had held the smaller children ashen and motionless. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other smaller forms darted through the clouds, circling the monster. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Clattering and yelling, the horde of moving statues stampeded past Harry: some of them smaller, others larger, than life. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They stepped into the room and walked up to a smaller pile. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Does a “shorter” or smaller bump equal softer or a lower pitch or both? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He also stayed long enough in each town to form the most enthusiastic of his converts into religious societies, which in turn he subdivided into smaller classes of a dozen or so people. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hers are smaller than Baba's, but the pressure and warmth on my skin feels so familiar. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On top of the big kennels are 10 smaller cages with smaller dogs. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because Hunt, Smith’s subordinate, had the smaller of the two vessels, the actual number was surely less. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He showed Harry two identical balls, jet black and slightly smaller than the red Quaffle. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

His mother said, “Roy, honey, they’re not going to arrest him. But he needs to be taught a lesson. He could seriously hurt somebody, picking on smaller kids the way he does.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t just let it run wild. Trebon’s only about five miles from here. And there’s smaller farms closer than that. Think of the damage it would do.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I lifted my head in time to watch the Green Caboose get smaller and smaller and then disappear around a bend. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was fun to gather the large round walnuts and the smaller hickory nuts, and the little hazelnuts that grew in bunches on the bushes. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was small, but super sparkly; a circle of smaller diamonds surrounded the big one in the middle and trickled down the silver band. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I was led to an adjoining anteroom—a smaller office, where some of the eight had gathered. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On his desk stood what looked like a large, cracked, glass spinning top; Harry recognized it at once as a Sneakoscope, because he owned one himself, though it was much smaller than Moody’s. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The bus chugs down our street, and I watch him grow smaller, and then the bus turns the comer and he is gone. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a smaller farm for he was a maker of blankets. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was not unlike the Green Man’s, but smaller, with fewer tables and benches. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

And there are two other, smaller buildings beyond that. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Seth held a smaller duffel bag and a cereal box. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“He just thought it was smaller than it is.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

A large number of smaller species also disappeared. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, a smaller community tends to exert greater social incentives against crime, the main one being shame. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

On one of the smaller screens above her is an image—a piece of the surveillance footage we just watched, frozen at a particular moment in time. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The rations had grown smaller; that was the only change. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nigel had come to stand next to the man, and I realized as I spoke that the two looked much alike, the boy a smaller replica of the man. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A fat Mexican gangster runs in from the backyard with his fists clenched, a smaller one trailing behind. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In those days, following breakfast, the B-block inmates bound for programs in various other parts of the prison were allowed to congregate on Q-north prior to being released from the block in smaller, escorted groups. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch Pa’s figure get smaller and smaller, and still I wave to him, hoping he will turn around and wave back. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fixes me with a quizzical stare and then consults his two smaller companions. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Presently a little girl came around a rusted ship’s engine, pulling a smaller girl by the hand. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We need to use something with a much smaller wavelength. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll just have one of her people"—she points a sticky finger in my direction—"fix me right up. Slim me down even smaller next time, so I have more room to grow." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The smaller boy yells, “And who hits someone for just picking up a horseshoe crab?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

There were seven tiers to it, each one a little smaller than the one below, and it ended in a slender spire. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one is smaller than the others, and folded intricately into a star pattern. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

This was due to two factors: I had grown taller and stronger, but more important, Fort Hare was so much smaller than Healdtown, I had less competition. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always like hanging out in Soojin’s room, which is smaller than mine and painted a pretty green. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The house seemed smaller and quieter after the trip south, and the first bloom of San Francisco’s glamour had dulled around the edges. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not much smaller,” Neel protested, but he obeyed his sister and felt her attaching the lure to his back. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He clasped his hands in his lap, knotted and lumpy as cherry twigs, and all of him seemed to shrink in the seat as though he sucked in his outline to make it smaller. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see her getting smaller and smaller by the day. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hale's classroom was smaller than some, and he leaned back against one of the dark wooden panels on the wall. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Here she was put on another plane, a smaller one—the only one that flew to remote Barrow. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there the bigger path forked into a smaller one. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He seemed smaller than I remembered, a little squirrel of a guy, short and stumpy-looking. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The population in the village is growing smaller by the day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Persians have adopted that method too, except most Persians use a large kettle and a smaller pot you can stack on top, like a double boiler. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes on the main trail, Wash pointed to a smaller path to one side. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I copied the number into my guidebook and dialed from a pay telephone, sorting through the coins with which I was still unfamiliar, smaller and lighter than shillings, heavier and brighter than paisas. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Their place is smaller than I could have even imagined. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

That tree-lined neighborhood at the top of the smaller slope must be the Crest, Magdalys thought, where all the affluent Brooklynites were said to live, promenading along the streets astride their graceful duckbills. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I struggle to my feet and watch as the rocket grows smaller and smaller and finally winks out of sight in the stratosphere. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Two huge towers flanked the castle’s main gate, and smaller ones defended every angle of its walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

What if Axel misses having the pillows on the floor and the wooden crosses that framed smaller sections to look through? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was smaller than the ones they’d seen by the river, and it had no signs of injury anywhere. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The courtroom was smaller than I’d imagined, about the size of an average living room, with wooden benches lining either side of a narrow aisle. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then it gets smaller, and smaller, and you hear people at Mission Control clapping, laughing—and you want to clap and laugh too. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The leaves get smaller and yellower, folding back toward the bud, and the air crisps. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It looked smaller than I remembered it, and more—used. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, a large dump of dirt hit me in the face, exploding into many smaller pieces that filled my eyes and nose, making me cough and sputter. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The apartment had only two little bedrooms, one bathroom, a living area, and a kitchen—a lot smaller than our house in Kansas. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

One great hulk floated hull up between two smaller ships. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Major seconds and thirds are larger in Pythagorean intonation than in equal temperament, and minor seconds and thirds are smaller. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A squadron could be split into flights of three aircraft for smaller missions, too. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Under the dirty window was a stone sink, where the old man was pouring something with a shaky hand from a large bottle into a smaller one. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened one of the smaller doors to the weary travelers and there they finished the short night. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Since Rollie and Lillie are twice as big as the other two dogs, Nora and I decided to split them up and each walk one bigger dog and one smaller dog. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He would obey me of course if I said I preferred to put the vase on the smaller table by the window. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The crooked collection of mud-brick huts in the beastkeepers’ quarters seemed so much smaller in the daytime. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It felt like the shed was getting smaller and smaller and the little mouths were getting closer and closer. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Smoking and beating up smaller kids were his two main hobbies. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look, the river getting smaller into the far distance, back and back and back. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

None of us participated in his theater program, which at the time existed on a smaller scale and attracted just two of the A’s—artists and the nonathletically inclined academic kids. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The barn was divided into twelve smaller pens, each with a thick layer of fresh straw for them to bed in. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He drops the leash a bit and the smaller dog lets out a yelp as he pulls forward. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She separated a smaller file of papers from the rest. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“No, that you shall never be. But it is not Caer Dallben which has grown smaller. You have grown bigger. That is the way of it.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He lifted her up as easily as if she were a child and set her on the thin Dothraki saddle, so much smaller than the ones she was used to. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Beneath the skull he saw another, smaller, the jaw broken off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You mean kill it? Just because it’s smaller than the others?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Everyone was afraid of this new announcement, and we had seen too many smaller Resettlements to take it lightly. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

If you cut it into six pieces the slices are bigger than if you cut it in nine but smaller than if you cut it in three. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her form was blurred, made from Mist, and she was trailed by two smaller wisps of smoke, darting at her heels like animals. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I try to imagine these men and their game, for it helps place my own regrettable acts on a broader field, where they seem smaller. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked much younger and smaller than I had imagined—like a little boy in his green shorts and shirt. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The mishus grow smaller and smaller, and finally, on the next hill over, disappear into the big white house. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They parked the big rigs on a gravel bar, unloaded the ATVs, and continued toward the bus in the smaller, more maneuverable machines. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the daylight, the Rezaeis’ house was older and smaller than Mamou’s, the khaki muted enough that I could look at it without sustaining damage to my visual cortex. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It looks as though everything here were built in one day, in the same quaint time as the Residenz palace back home, just smaller. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There I am in her mirror eyes, in duplicate and monochrome, and a great deal smaller than life-sized. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pigeon’s eye is orange with a smaller black button in the center. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Both the yard and the house were smaller than the wall might suggest. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

See, I had been staying for about a week in a beach house on a cliff that overlooked one of Laguna Beach’s smaller coves. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But for the Enterprise of the Indies to work, for ships and crews to survive the long voyage, the Earth had to be smaller than Eratosthenes had said. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was living in a four-walled tent with a smaller table and a cot. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They have a hoarse, distant bellow like a rutting stag and make their way high above the howl and whistle of the smaller shells. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read that the male okapi is smaller than the female, and more shy, and that hardly anything else is known about them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take the cell phone—it’s smaller than mine, more buzzy. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

If anything, the NACA’s response to Sputnik would only intensify the process of change, as the herculean task of safely navigating the heavens was divided into myriad smaller tasks, tests, parts, and people. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She must stay strong for the sake of Mamá and her smaller brothers and sisters and for herself too. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I had seen her eyes grow bigger and her teasing voice become smaller whenever the handsome delivery man arrived. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The broad-leafed trees become smaller, there are more pines, the air cools, the sky turns an icier blue: we’re heading away from spring. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As Lelia cleared the table I cut her a big slice and a smaller one for myself. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smaller half flipped upside down as it broke, and lay there dribbling black plantain juice like blood onto the tablecloth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three Ivan had left were much smaller than that one, but still incredible. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

So I start cutting even smaller, and putting less pieces in the water. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the other times we searched for Susan Thomas, this time the results got smaller—the first page was all websites about the same person. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

So, paradoxically, smaller black holes might actually turn out to be easier to detect than large ones! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time he looked up as her dark shape grew smaller and smaller against the stars. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Finally their movement stopped, though all around them smaller rocks were still tumbling and bounding down a slope that hadn’t been there a minute before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the same time, Annabeth kicked up with her legs to make herself a smaller target. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

For an aquarium worker, she didn’t seem to know much or care much about the smaller fish. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The second day of the charrette began promptly at 10 A.M., with the large group dividing into several smaller clusters to discuss in detail the issues brought up the previous day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

If a star could collapse to such a small size, it is not unreasonable to expect that other stars could collapse to even smaller size and become black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a tiny creature, smaller than Winston, with dark hair and large, protuberant eyes, at once mournful and derisive, which seemed to search your face closely while he was speaking to you. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A third old woman, smaller than the other two, was ambling toward them through the trees with unnerving quiet. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And what if a sentence has a smaller sentence within it? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Large tree, smaller tree, steps, garden, stone path leading to a gate with a picket fence on either side. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lighted sign read H&J ENTERPRISES, with smaller Korean characters on the ends. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the small roads turn into bigger roads, and I thought, Goodbye, smaller roads. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, I—I was going to ask if you, um, had smaller pants.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bobcats—admittedly much smaller creatures than mountain lions—are known to exist in considerable numbers and yet are so shy and furtive that you would never guess their existence. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I feel wired and on edge, and my room feels even smaller than usual. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In Europe, untold numbers of native species were crushed against the impassable barrier of the Alps and its smaller cousins and fell into extinction. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I see!” she called back, trying to smile, and clenching her hands together under the water to keep from reaching out to the smaller girl. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was smaller and quieter than his brother, but when he did talk, he made you think long, serious thoughts about your life. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Planck formula did not zoom off to infinity as the wavelength decreased; instead of having the energy get bigger and bigger as the wavelength goes down, it got smaller and smaller again. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

If Bod had been smaller he would have wanted to put it into his mouth. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She pulled her wig off and, with her short hair worn in cornrows, her face looked younger, smaller. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Just smaller enough so I don’t think I’m about to fall in and keep falling. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even the smaller challenges—breaking a bad habit or sticking to a diet—often prove too difficult, even for those of us who are relatively privileged and comfortable in our daily lives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She guides us down an open hallway until we reach a smaller lobby, where another set of sliding glass doors stands. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"It looks something like that one,” he would say, "only it has a few more broken windows, and the yard is maybe a little smaller.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked smaller than I had remembered, and the rain had caused the paint to warp and peel. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A smaller road turns off from this one and leads down to it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But it seemed that somehow my share was smaller because I was the oldest, because I was casi señorita, because I ought to know better. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He towered over the smaller man, moving forward into his space, forcing him to retreat. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We found a bottle under a couple of smaller rocks and dug it out. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He explained when we were smaller that when things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carried a large suitcase and she carried a smaller one. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was smaller than he remembered and fixed to a single, long, square post, sharpened at the further end to put into the earth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a smaller photo of his parents, on their wedding day. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The tree itself was shrinking, growing smaller with each vision, whilst the lesser trees dwindled into saplings and vanished, only to be replaced by other trees that would dwindle and vanish in their turn. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The bird looked much smaller dead than it had alive. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the kids were my size or smaller, but there were ten or twelve monster dudes. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The smaller the instrument, the higher the pitch, for example. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He held the glass in one hand, but before picking up the peanut-buttered apple, he set a smaller paper bag—the one that wasn’t covering a bottle—in front of Genie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“But nobody else here has hair like that,” a smaller girl said. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He directs the cart toward what was once the cafeteria, and we follow him until he’s in the smaller open room connected to the domed great room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As the extinctions proceeded, the Clovis people switched from mammoths to the smaller, more numerous bison. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I noticed that the big boy who had held the smaller one in his lap was now leading him to the table by the hand. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He was,” Collins growled, “but Keeler knew guns. Blast you and your teaching! Four good men all signed up as second mates on smaller vessels!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kind that make a good poultice are the smaller size. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Opposite them are two open huts that are used as the communal kitchen and three smaller huts where the supervisors live. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had also cut smaller sticks—limbs and the tops of the trees—some of them five or six feet long and two or three inches in diameter. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Opening my eyes and raising my head, I saw the red caboose getting smaller and smaller as it neared the end of the trestle. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I explained how Mandy and I bathed the younger girls and ourselves in the same water and helped with the smaller boys. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I need to calm down—my mind is spinning in ever smaller circles. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The trees were smaller now, and the roads looked like strips of paper. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A place called the Smoke. Like a city, only smaller. And no one was in charge there, and no one was pretty.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The man tugged on a smaller loop at his end of the four-foot pole. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The gnarled, smaller trees became taller pines, the undergrowth thinning, the brook breaking into occasional rapids. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It didn’t touch the interior, but in a flash most of the smaller monsters around it were incinerated. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He heard Trina shout at him from below, but the ground fell away, the people growing smaller by the second. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I wish to help her, but I am much smaller than she. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He curled the hedge apple behind him and let it fly a little harder than planned, knocking the smaller jack out of the circle. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In 1930, a far smaller percentage of black children attended school than did white children, and those blacks lucky enough to see the inside of a schoolhouse endured overcrowded classrooms taught by severely underpaid teachers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s holding the handles of a smaller wheelchair, one that is, apparently, all mine. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I told myself that if my eyes were not so big or my nose smaller, if I were not so large or my hair straighter, the Mehtas would be kinder. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was so much smaller than me now, and I liked the way she sometimes leaned into me or hugged me, like she was excited. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Some of them are as large as bricks, but each one gets progressively smaller and lighter, until I finally see the first edition of the official glasses propped up at the end of the shelves. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“So I’m going to keep this short. It’s a new year, and we have a new pack of initiates. And a slightly smaller pack of new members. We offer them our congratulations.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Given the near impossibility of surpassing the glaciers without the corridor, some archaeologists suggested that the first Americans must have arrived twenty thousand years ago, when the ice pack was smaller. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I had no hacksaw to cut it into smaller pieces, and I was not strong enough to heat it and hammer it apart. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam picked up a little glass, shaped like an hour glass, only much smaller. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left Marco on his hands and knees, scrabbling in the darkness for another, smaller darkness that hid the light of his diamond from his furious eyes. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

After that beating, students who were younger and smaller than Shin began to insult his mother. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And the stores are smaller with less flashy signs, and all of them have stands outside selling beach towels and sunscreen and Styrofoam coolers. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

To the smaller of the two bundles, we tied a length of rope. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Particle accelerators are the microscopes of the subatomic world, and the more energy you put into those particles—the more powerful the microscope—the smaller the objects you can see. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

So his take-home pay was getting smaller, and his mother, in turn, was getting surlier. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prizefighter carried two grain bags while the smaller, weasel-like man only had one. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath that, in smaller letters, it said NO THOROUGHFARE. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In certain other parts of the world, slow north-south diffusion was important on a smaller scale. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Allow me to introduce myself,” said the smaller of the men, producing a badge from his coat pocket. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was smaller than small and sat on my lap back then. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

One person suggested moving Garfield to a smaller room filled with ice blocks. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They seemed frightened and ill at ease, and somehow Jane and Michael realised that the two huge sisters were wishing that they were much smaller and less conspicuous. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

A perfect tongue, smaller than a newborn kittens, reached out for the drops of milk on her lips. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This town was smaller than the one in which he lived. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The smaller children were hauled off to bed, but no one else attempted to leave. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were a lot smaller eight years ago,” Natalie said, almost apologetically. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I found bats roosting in the holes among the crystals—insect-eating bats, smaller than the fruit bats that clustered near the cave’s mouth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A familiar example is provided by a car: the more powerful the engine, the greater the acceleration, but the heavier the car, the smaller the acceleration for the same engine. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s much smaller than it was, but the important part is there. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The clock was still there, but it looked smaller now, and less odd—like every woods would have a skinned grandfather clock in it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I think probably most miracles are a lot smaller, and sort of still, and so quiet, you could miss them. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“From what I can see,” he said, “there are three large scars—and perhaps some smaller ones. Not as awful as I expected, but...well, the dresses can cover it, I suppose.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

To one side of him stood a smaller figure. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I'm betting many of the other tributes would pass up a smaller girl, even one who scored an eleven in training, to take out their more fierce adversaries. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I grab a smaller piece of cheese and stuff it into my mouth, green mold and all. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I try to look past him at what we’re passing—a sea of crumbling, abandoned buildings that get smaller as we go. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

At some point the balloon would shrivel and wither, getting smaller and smaller, and then eventually disappear as a point—the singularity at the beginning of time and space. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Beside the fish was a smaller bowl with red jam inside it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

When tire circles got smaller he let go. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Joseph Bell which was broken has been recast into two smaller bells. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The trip was a blur, and tougher than they had expected; the truck’s cab was smaller than they’d planned, so it was harder to rest. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inside of Madame Sabbar’s tent looked a whole lot smaller without all the people piled up in it. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They were a gang of the smaller breeds being driven unwilling to their Dark Lord’s wars; all they cared for was to get the march over and escape the whip. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She looked younger and smaller than the others, with bright-red feathers. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

This month’s group was smaller—only Dexter, Jack, and Mason were there. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then Mandy’s arms were around me, and I was crying into the ruffles along the neck of her apron, where I had cried so many times before for smaller reasons. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I watched them get smaller and smaller, and then disappear like two little wishes that wouldn’t come true. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

That meant that the white portion was now much smaller than was shown here. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the ring burned smaller we suddenly caught sight of its other side, the red-orange tongues and black ash closing in. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prince Hamlet shone with his own glory, and courtiers arranged themselves around him like the smaller lights in the heavens around their sun. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I carve a rounded end on another smaller stick. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

All these drawings make the closet seem smaller. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We were sitting in his new bedroom, which was smaller than his bedroom at his old apartment, but at least it was only his bedroom, no brothers. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse was nineteen, a graduate of Middleton High, in an even smaller and emptier town a few miles away. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the flyer, which had Abuela’s face right in the middle of it with smaller photos of the rest of my family circled around her. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I am afraid of her, afraid of what she says—and thrilled by it too, because it means I don’t have to accept that I am smaller than I once believed. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Once, when she was smaller, she had dropped a pot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The engines started up, and I watched as Eugene Field Memorial Middle School got smaller and smaller, its bricks and cement gradually disappearing into the distance. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A smaller ranging would reach Hardhome sooner... but what good were swords without food? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The golden key was larger than the key that opened the armoire, but smaller than the key that opened the jewelry box. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Papá signaled to my smaller brothers and sister to leave. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

This star, in turn, contains an even smaller pentagon, which contains a tinier star with its tiny pentagon, and so forth. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The children carried small basins or pulled smaller children along. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Vonetta sat in a small heap of herself, looking smaller and smaller, letting that Ankton girl sing “Your sister is a baby” merrily, merrily, merrily. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was going to hurt a lot to watch her getting smaller and smaller. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sure, I’ve been meaning to get him a smaller collar for a long time. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

As the doctor watched, the husband turned red, pulled himself together so that he seemed even smaller, tried to disappear under his bedsheets, and stammered out words in a barely audible voice. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before the Agricultural Revolution, the human population of the entire planet was smaller than that of today’s Cairo. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved being able to knock into the smaller characters and send them flying. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The Moss menagerie also included a mule, goats, cows, and various smaller animals. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The smaller species, such as midges and blackflies, become re-established rather quickly. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Two squares lined with water draining into a smaller black hole. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Like... smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They were small compared to men, as a wolf is smaller than a direwolf. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She is fatter than Manman, but her clothes are smaller and tighter and shorter. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Their new floe was smaller and less stable. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Hour after hour she helps Frau Elena with the smaller children or walks to the market or finds some other excuse to be helpful, to be busy, to be out. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The flanks of a great cat, the neck and heavy hump of a bull, wings as sharp and vicious as the wings of the great seraph, though on a smaller scale. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I guess its because girls are smaller or look younger or something. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

A few of the smaller men even go gallivanting around in little undershirts decorated with childish prints, and nobody seems to notice the joke. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Axel’s home might be smaller than other homes, but it fits just right for him and Byrd. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Japanese are generally smaller than Caucasians, and almost all these clothes were oversize. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a smaller group of Allies had been helping each other out on the Eastern Front in Russia for some time now. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When the smaller boys didn’t answer him quickly enough, he snapped, “Do you understand me or don’t you? You speak English, right?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe because I was always so much smaller than everyone around me, I had this fierce drive to prove myself. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They waited in silence, the emperor’s figure getting smaller and smaller as he walked away, the snow slowly veiling him from view. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The room was small and, although I knew it couldn't be true, it felt like it was getting smaller by the second. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The body looked smaller in his giant arms. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The villains might be able to run them down in this smaller side channel. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I passed a little girl on the stairs smacking a child even smaller than herself, telling it to stop crying. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The second refugee camp, farther inside the town, was smaller, smelled better, and used to be a town hall. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sap lacquer was a product of another and much smaller tree, which the mulefa cultivated for that purpose. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Eventually all the children slept on the second floor, and a maid, and later a governess, Dorus and Anna putting up walls to divide already small rooms into smaller ones. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he made the large box, then a second one to fit inside, and cut the smaller boxes from that? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He looked smaller and flatter than I had ever seen him. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Pet kept up with her easily, its strides swallowing up her smaller steps. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Instead he watched as the figures of Mr. Das and the children grew smaller, climbing up the steep path, pausing every now and then for a picture, surrounded by a growing number of monkeys. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were large, lidless, and pure black, with two smaller eyes sticking out of her temples. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mum made us go to Sunday school at Saint Gabriel's when we were smaller but it turned every Sunday morning into torture by boredom. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They played cricket, swam in the pond, and even organized a few games of hide-and-seek for the smaller children in the village. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

But if atoms are so small and empty and the nuclei smaller still, why does the table hold me up? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result her feet were smaller than natural feet but larger than bound ones. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plain box held five smaller boxes—a small round one in the center and four curved boxes that fit around it perfectly. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The Americans were blasting back at the smaller craft. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He looked at it but put it back, and got the smaller gun from the tent. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We will begin felling the smaller trees in order to make room for our tents and gardens. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they’re sincere? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They’re sufficiently similar to familiar crops that you can easily recognize the wild berries, even though they’re much smaller than those we grow. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The big boys and girls get those luxury apartments, and our smaller friends get the penthouses.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

At supper silly, the children sat at a separate smaller table. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Father opened it, there was only one single sheet and a second, smaller envelope. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Block above block, each story smaller than the one below, the tall houses rose like stepped and amputated pyramids into the blue sky. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He removed one of the lids, and dipped in a great ladle, and with it filled three bowls, one very large bowl, and two smaller ones. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A cloud of smaller ships quickly formed around me, piloted by curious avatars zooming in for a closer look at Leopardon. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In a sense these infinitesimals were infinitely small, smaller than any positive number you could name, yet still somehow greater than zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They followed Alfhercht through a heavy door, and they found themselves in another oblong room, but much smaller. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was also shorter with a much smaller body frame than I was expecting. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then a wolf spider, startling in size and hairiness, streaked over the gravel, either chasing something smaller or being chased by something bigger, I couldn’t tell which. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When the crackle of gunfire rings out, I grab Marlena and duck into a smaller alley. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Still, in the beginning the bigger birds would try the smaller cars, get trapped, and raise holy Hannah trying to get out before the tourists drove off with them trapped inside. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

So the farther away we are from the Sun, the smaller and dimmer it appears. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, the speed at which the galaxies are moving apart gets smaller and smaller, although it never quite reaches zero. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smaller the army, the more it has to whip itself up into a frenzy. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I spot what looks like a Tribal trader and beside him, smaller bodies—his family. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Furniture had indeed fallen; the place was a chaos of wrecked clocks and chairs, and in the midst of it the bulk of Tom Hustings lay, fallen on the smaller figure of Abanazer Bolger. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember much about Askar, except that he looked like my dad, but he was half a hand shorter, half a size smaller, half as educated, and half as friendly. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Instantly they regrouped behind the blackberry bramble and charged out again—but this time in smaller numbers: first two, then three, then two again. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Unable to resist this ripe opportunity for promotion, Mr. Cogswell had also tacked a smaller banner across the back of the wagon, advertising “Fresh Cherries at Cogswell’s. Best price in town.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The smaller FBI man shook his head gravely. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two smaller groups of warriors rode farther south. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Along the spine of the Andes the empire set up a string of a dozen administrative centers that were like smaller versions of the capital. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tyrell, on the other hand, manages to seem smaller than he is. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mabel's hand was in mine and I was looking at her fingers, smaller than mine and a few shades darker, and I wanted them under my clothes again but didn't dare say it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

For millions of years, humans hunted smaller creatures and gathered what they could, all the while being hunted by larger predators. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was planning to read a smaller book for my report. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Then their hands flew, throwing cards on top of cards until Bridge yelled “Out!” and banged her hand down on the smaller of the two spit piles. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

For the rest there was nothing I could use, but these were smaller and mercifully soon stopped bleeding. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were either too large and would not go in, or, when they had been turned smaller, they were too small and would not hold the strings in tune. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He seemed smaller to me than he had that morning. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You cain’t see to the right from there, and they could rush us. Take the smaller one.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jonas, don’t speak with your mouth full. Take smaller pieces,” scolded Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Before World War I was over, four other Russian women’s regiments formed based on Maria Bochkareva’s battalion, along with many smaller units. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“And, Joe, you said not every minority is visible, remember? Think about it, Addie, what makes a minority? It’s numbers, right? The majority is the larger percentage, the minority the smaller.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the nucleus is a hundred thousand times smaller still, which is part of the reason it took so long to be discovered.* Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then they started getting smaller again, becoming a baby again. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Packed into one of the briefcases was an even smaller one, just right for me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Her chest, smaller than my fist, shuddered, and she gave a cry, but so weak, so like a parting, that I was near despair. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hallway with its eight doors seemed smaller to Lina than it had when she was a student, and shabbier. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The cows are much smaller, but they make more noise than the bulls, screaming and barking through the whole day and sometimes at night. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys made their way to the back, where the smaller motors for sleek water taxis were being sold and repaired. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

From a still smaller pocket I took out my cigar cutter and matches. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They had brought in plastic totes, coolers, and big buckets, and deposited them in the smaller rocks just beyond the shark. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the cramped living room, surrounded by the dark oversized furniture from the old house they grew up in, they were children again in a smaller, simpler version of the world. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The modem army, smaller and increasingly high-tech, was getting quite choosy about its recruits. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was much smaller, being half filled by his bed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A smaller number of geneticists, however, balked at complementary replication. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It was put into the big wooden icebox in the back of the store and sold by the chunk or into smaller pieces that sold for fifteen cents each. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were large footprints like Tyson’s, and smaller ones— goat hooves—leading off to the left. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He is smaller than every cadet in his year. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had never seen another fox before, but he knew: younger and smaller and a female, but fox. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

My family lived in a modest two-story house with a smaller house in the same compound, which was really just two side-by-side rooms for our cook, an everyday servant, and their families. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they were smaller than you might have thought. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the other boys on the block were now smaller than me physically and somewhat behind in their athletic ability, they were far behind in their literary skills. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

This cage, like those, was a single-fenced enclosure divided into smaller ones. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Are quarks the ultimate constituents of matter, or are they too composed of still smaller and more elementary particles? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a nearby, smaller fire, she lifted a kettle from its hook and carried it into the cott. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Kampala, it took him two days to get through customs and immigration before he could board a smaller plane to go to Juba, in southern Sudan. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

His silhouette became smaller and smaller and then finally, faded into the darkness. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He left office in March of 1797 with the resounding cheers of his huge army of supporters and the howls of that much smaller pack of critics echoing in his ears. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Up until now, I have lived for uneventfulness, and have found smaller satisfaction in the art of getting by. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I think London looks like London and the cars like cars, only smaller. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little one, smaller than I expected, lay curled in a blue blanket in my mother's arms. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Her own bed was king-size, and a platform, so that wouldn’t do her any good, but in the spare bedroom, there was a smaller bed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Outside in the yard, parked in a row, were three brand-new bicycles—a big red one and two smaller ones, a blue boy’s bike and a purple girl’s bike. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the other edge of the property, a tall palm tree and several smaller, bluish silver eucalyptus trees trembled together in the late-afternoon wind. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The first gathering was far to the east, and smaller. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

His golden fur was soon darkened by the rain and plastered close to his body, making him smaller and less easy to see, but all the same he was horribly conspicuous. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Qendrim was smaller than most of his teammates, but he had their respect; when he called out directions during games, the others listened. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

We were led to the back of the cave and into a smaller tunnel than the entrance, one of four branching off the back wall. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She is almost five and looks much smaller than I did when I was that age. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little puzzled, Harry followed Dumbledore through the creaking door into a space a little smaller than the average cupboard. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I identify all the smaller pigments—the rich browns and tans and whites—that help make the hue bright and uniform. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“The no-longer-nomads, called the Cealdim by now, were the first to establish a standardized currency. By cutting one of these smaller bars into five pieces you get five drabs.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When his father opens up one of the books to a random page, the print is far smaller than in the Hardy Boys series Gogol has begun recently to enjoy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The terms in the infinite series didn’t have a limit or a destination; they seemed to get smaller and smaller without any particular end in sight. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

You only know because your roommate told you, but now that you look, you can see that it is slightly smaller and doesn’t track as well as the other. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

While the rest of her became smaller, her eyes grew larger. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Tasmania and those three smaller islands thus illustrate in extreme form a conclusion of broad potential significance for world history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He built a separate home for himself—smaller, simpler, and infinitely more humble, but comfortable all the same. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The cat room is smaller than the dog room, but it has more occupants, and it smells worse. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They arrived at a set of smaller doors made of a fine-grained white wood, and the Huntsman turned the round crystal handles and said, “You will be very comfortable here.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She did the windows and the desk, then moved the ladder around Mr. Randolph to the smaller of the two giant bookcases. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

These smaller intervals all work out well in mean-tone tuning, but the result is a fifth that is noticeably smaller than a pure fifth. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Graceful open pavilions were connected by covered walkways to outbuildings capped in smaller domes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A month from now, he will begin a new job at a smaller architectural practice, producing his own designs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had laid four eggs, smaller and not as white as the ones our neighbor Doña Lola gave us from time to time. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She had to appreciate the smaller things in life like food and TV. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Please,” I said in a much smaller voice. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Each day, prisoners got the thin soup and the foul bread, but portions grew smaller and smaller. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, she’s been reading up on it. Just today she asked about your foundation shrubs. So I told her about the butterfly bush and that smaller one, the purple one.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A second man carried a second, smaller camera. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In its downward plunge, the huge limbs stripped the branches from the smaller trees. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the source emits the next wave crest it will be nearer to us, so the distance between wave crests will be smaller than when the star was stationary. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ruby at her throat throbbed slowly, and Jon saw that the smaller stone on Rattleshirt’s wrist was brightening and darkening as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He looked shrunken, both smaller and frailer than he had been when they burst in on him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The planets themselves moved on smaller circles attached to their respective spheres in order to account for their rather complicated observed paths in the sky. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed even smaller with Mother storming around. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can he? He’s already smaller than a cockroach!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Sohrab left his arm resting on my shoulder as he pointed out the other buildings nearby: newer, smaller mosques, and bazaars, and farther away, looming over Yazd, the mountains we were going to visit soon. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The gray clouds sailed above us, breaking up into smaller ones, leaving little openings of blue sky. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The ship was smaller than he had expected, and the wind more treacherous. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Maybe reconsider the part where you say her haircut makes her forehead look smaller.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Behind this door is another locked door, slightly smaller.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ike deeper they rode into the waste, the smaller the pools became, while the distance between them grew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It felt like a dun-geon down there, in part because entry to the building was via the floor above, but also because it was darker, with smaller windows and lower ceilings. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had performed smaller protection rituals before, but never one this major, or as important. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He went back to his rosebush, thinning the smaller branches at the top. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"This club is smaller than I thought it would be. Cozy." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A woman wearing horn-rimmed glasses stood outside the smaller building’s porch entrance. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

A second extension will be to smaller geographic scales and shorter time scales than those of this book. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Do you think the laws should adjust, and allow for smaller waistlines?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Stately stone and brick homes had wood interiors, and stood side by side with smaller wood-frame houses. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

All around the room, the smaller crowds grow and expand, and fewer and fewer voices fill the room, until there are only three or four. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Children’s,” I said, my voice smaller than I expected it to be. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The friend looked younger, because he was so much lighter and smaller. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why not live in a smaller, generic town house in a less expensive part of south San Jose that was twenty minutes farther from all my friends, my job, and my high school? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In Russia, people use a samovar—a smaller version of Smaug the Voluminous—to heat a bunch of water, and then mix it with über-strong tea from a smaller pot. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, our portions were smaller than usual. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We went in another door without a knob, into a smaller hallway with steps leading up to a landing. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Twice it took her through other Rusty ruins, smaller towns further along in their disintegration. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Lower the temperature and the volume of the balloons gets smaller and smaller. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

If Jupiter were a meter across, our comet would be smaller than a speck of dust, but when fully developed, its tail would be as great as the distances between the worlds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next couple of days were kind of like that: Mine and Annie’s universe got smaller and quieter. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If the world of Mqhekezweni revolved around the regent, my smaller world revolved around his two children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some distance from the main gate was a smaller one, and to this he pointed. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piles of vegetables and what looked like rice, but smaller. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The office is large but looks smaller than it is due to the volume of its contents. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Chapter 2 prepares us for exploring effects of continental environments on history over the past 13,000 years, by briefly examining effects of island environments on history over smaller time scales and areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The person sitting alone on the bow looked smaller than the rest. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But he had already made smaller glider models for the three of us. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

You might think there are hundreds or even thousands of ways in which one thought can lead to another, but in fact the number is far smaller. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t bother with the second pair; they are a smaller size. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were lighter animals for hunting, hawking, and riding, and others still smaller, like the jennet Robin had ridden. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

There was, after all, plenty of money to be made by the two growing tobacco firms, not to mention the several smaller companies in and around Durham at the time. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There is something very massive, very dense, and very small ticking and purring inside M87—from a region smaller than the solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eamon says, Dear Lulu, If this McCaffrey is that tall that he’s pushing his yoke against your belly button I suggest you find a smaller man who will slip it between your thighs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Once the floor is swept, Mr. Jones applies tape to mark on the floor a smaller basketball court, a foursquare court, and a dodgeball area. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Why don’t I throw you another, smaller party and you can get your footage extras there? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He looks smaller, too, more vulnerable, a caricature of himself. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Europe’s two biggest rivers, the Rhine and Danube, are smaller and connect much less of Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few smaller plants had yellow and red flowers and green bulbs that looked like small avocados. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Guy came in just at that moment and saw her bare chest by the light of the smaller castor oil lamp that they used for the later hours of the night. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

At that moment she seemed smaller to me. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

They brought him down as easily as they might bring down a much smaller deer, and they howled their victory. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The robots were flickers, small and getting smaller, in the distance. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She folded and refolded her Kleenex into smaller and smaller squares. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Her hand rested on the shoulder of a much smaller girl. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will get smaller and smaller until we see where the tracks end, the forests and fields I last saw when I was too young to appreciate them. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I still hear from anguished kids, but far less often; coming in a smaller stream, their stories are both more manageable and less painful. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Pax’s surprise, a smaller, skinnier version of herself unfurled at her paws. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The story goes that over the years, as we multiplied, our power diluted. As we became less powerful, we got smaller, too.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It still doesn’t scare me, but I guess I’m waiting for the moment that Lansing is so far in the rearview that it gets smaller. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Celia’s giant nonsense word began to break apart into smaller, more intelligible ones. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The cuts on her naked body were smaller, dotting her arms and legs like slightly parted red lips. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The couple decided to move to Johann’s hometown of Nuremberg, a smaller and more conservative city, where Maria helped Johann establish an engraving and publishing firm. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Each time Bull received the ball he would take his time, dribbling cautiously, moving backward, taking his smaller son under the basket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

You knew, from then on, that the world was a smaller place than you’d expected. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I opened a smaller drawer and saw his stacks of handkerchiefs. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The streets seemed dirtier when they got out, and the apartment seemed smaller. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although a slightly smaller plant, wild sweet pea looks so much like wild potato that even expert botanists sometimes have trouble telling the species apart. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the length of my pinky finger, and smaller than my mother’s cigars. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Like when Apa took us to see mountain trees smaller than me. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They reared up on their back legs and whinnied and flapped their wings at each other until the smaller one galloped away, its rear bird legs putting a little hop in its step. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

By the time noon approached the tributary was gradually growing smaller. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Of course, they were much smaller than the store. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was followed by an elderly woman and a young girl about my age but smaller. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

My cousin and I agree that one of the smaller but stranger effects of 9/11 is how it changed our grandmother. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That, and so many other smaller incidents in my life, made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The amalgamation of smaller units into larger ones has often been documented historically or archaeologically. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Without his uniform he looks smaller, older, like something being dried. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, higher spin particles look the same if one turns them through smaller fractions of a complete revolution. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for now, since I am the smaller one, I have to listen to him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rowed in a much smaller shell, just fifty-two feet long, with short oars and small blades, all designed to accommodate their smaller bodies. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And that infinitesimal change ripples outward—ever smaller but everlasting. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Couldn’t you go somewhere else and tree one? Maybe the tree would be a smaller one.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Smeath was a transplant to the city, from somewhere a lot smaller. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

With every sentence, kids are happier and I feel smaller and smaller. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The smaller cub seemed slightly bolder and sniffed at Omakayas’s hand. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She took a step back toward the steps, but the cat stayed where it was, looking miserable and, oddly, much smaller. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The smaller one croaked something at her and flicked its head toward the path again, and then they turned back to each other. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

His cell was smaller, colder, than the cell in Manchester and his cellmate, another Nigerian, told him that he was not going to allow himself to be deported. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We lived in a different house then, a smaller house. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I sit with la juventud at the smaller table set up for the kids by the picture window. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

On the way back, he spotted the rarest and most delicate object in the wild, an old hummingbird’s nest, fragile and expertly woven, smaller than an eggcup. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

All across the room, the smaller spiders became agitated and began retreating back into the hallway. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Every night for a month smaller but more numerous frogs came so that he always had the same amount to eat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her shoulders are drawn in like she’s trying to make herself even smaller, trying to evaporate on the spot, and we stand too far apart, the entire width of the hallway between us. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

"I can see that," said the smaller cop. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That one was a juvenile,” he said, pointing to a skull smaller than the rest. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And that meant that Wellpinit, that smaller, Indian town, was also a place of mystery. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was not possible to make them respond quickly enough to dodge and turn, neither could they move fast enough to ram into Octavian’s smaller, lighter ships. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The gap between the two halves was smaller— or had she forgotten? The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The haul from the nets was smaller and smaller. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She had a small face, an even smaller nose, and short dark hair that grayed at the temples. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The next day I moved the mower farther into the richer part of the neighborhood, where the lawns began to get larger while my mower seemed to get smaller. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

It was as if he were looking in a trick mirror where he saw himself perfectly but on a smaller scale. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wielaf nodded and let them help him out of the smaller room and into the arena. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I tried to picture Betty Jean as a twelve-year-old girl, but I kept imagining a smaller version of her in a big flowered apron. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He looked around for some smaller container but there wasnt one. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The smaller the numbers of Indians, she said, the easier it is to regard the continent as empty, and hence up for grabs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You want us to be smaller,” I whispered. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He took the smaller rifle with him; also the glass tube. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

"There are more of us. We try to meet in smaller groups instead of having everyone at once," Willem explains. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They grew smaller and smaller until their fine silk capes and robes and hairpins fell on the stone floor and covered them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I squinted through the salt spray and saw that the cage had come to rest between what looked like two fins jutting from the monster’s back, one smaller and one larger. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We move the coffee table, and some of the smaller things, but the chair, my father's chair—their chair—we leave alone. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Thanks ever so much,” said Kate, already tying the rope around the smaller girl’s waist. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bus took a deep dip as it pulled off the narrow road and onto a smaller dirt one. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I chose smaller pieces, hoping my weight could control the lurch. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The slope of the cone forces one side of the slice to have a slightly smaller cross section than the other. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stores with brightly colored awnings lined the side opposite us, and the houses on our side got smaller as we walked. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She thought of the smaller places, stops on the underground, and remembered Auburn, a small town, with elm trees arching over its streets, and smooth lawns, and houses painted white. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The commander also reported that his forces had thus far destroyed about ten of the principal Cherokee towns, along with several smaller villages. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

But in smaller cities and villages, arranged marriages are still the norm, particularly introductions initiated by parents. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists have demonstrated that the first farmers in many areas were smaller and less well nourished, suffered from more serious diseases, and died on the average at a younger age than the hunter-gatherers they replaced. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It could expand into a full-size laptop, shrink into a tablet computer, or fold into a wafer of metal smaller than a cell phone. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There were even some wild centaurs in the mix, shooting flaming arrows and trampling their smaller allies under hoof. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A smaller ego, I thought, but I said nothing. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Jamison retreated to a smaller table of his own, dipping a pen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The quail egg Runt had brought was smaller, its speckled shell flecked with dried grass, and it smelled gamier than the ones his humans ate. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It makes me wonder if the smaller snake in my constellation with Director Horus was actually my own magic. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In our sort of family it is well to be the first-born: what resources there are, have later to be shared out in smaller and smaller portions. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a smaller wigwam where the tools were stored. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Dobyns was struck by the disparity between the large number of burials recorded at the parish and the far smaller number of baptisms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But he was very far away, so far that he appeared smaller than Sumac hunched in his little basket. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Father said the Red Keep was smaller than Winterfell, but in her dreams it had been immense, an endless stone maze with walls that seemed to shift and change behind her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They are, as I said, smaller worries, but real ones. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Watch me,” I say and he gets smaller and smaller in the shimmering and fading light as the boat pulls away from the dock and starts making its way downstream. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The original idea, when we hoped we’d have 24 extra people to move and hide, was to ferry them to the opposite bank where we’d divide them into smaller groups of 2 or 3. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A smaller and lighter horse, but restive and fiery, was brought to Legolas. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Branching to the right was the smaller river, the tributary. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was able to fold my feet in a little more since I was shorter and smaller than all the other boys. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We can get smaller and smaller—as small as we want. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She hands me a box, smaller than the one that held my earmuffs. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“In eighth grade, I was a lot smaller than I am now. That was before your time, before you got here.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Uhmma pulls off the packing tape on the smaller box and opens it up. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

This room looks like the kitchen and there’s a smaller room next to it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the same way that the steps that Achilles takes get smaller and smaller, and closer and closer to zero, the sum of those steps gets closer and closer to 2. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They followed a smaller dirt path around the side of the chapel, past the charred remains of a motorcycle. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Protests in the capital and in smaller cities happened almost every day. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Festus became an indistinct ball of fire in the sky - a second sun - growing smaller and hotter. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She pulls and brushes and tugs at my hair, and when she's finished, it's pulled back in a bun so tightly my eyes look even smaller and I can barely see any hair at all. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the road, to his left, the houses were also handsome, though less expensive and on a smaller scale and with no docks or boats or gardeners. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Liam says, “What are you talking about? He could be a safety, or a punt returner, or a running back. Being smaller works for those positions.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Our group got smaller the farther into the prison we went, with groups breaking off at the hospital building and at every side corridor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second and much smaller genome is of the DNA in mitochondria; it was mapped, to little public notice, in 1981. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Woodland elephants are different from their grand cousins who stomp across the grasslands: they’re smaller and more delicate, nuzzling through the leafy soil with rosy-pink tusks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked smaller and shabbier by daylight, but it was the same place, with the zinc-topped bar, the espresso machine, and the half-finished plate of risotto, now beginning to smell bad in the warm air. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One policy apparently paid off without any problem—the smaller one. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The larger circle is virgins. The smaller circle is seventeen-year- old guys with one leg.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

When I rubbed the towel over my arms, my wrists looked smaller, my freckled arms seemed gangly. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

We followed the rear of the train with our eyes until it got smaller and smaller and disappeared. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Flushing with pleasure and confusion, Ranofer followed him to one of the smaller furnaces. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

If you make the ninety-first cut of the apple pie, if you slice a carbon nucleus, you make not a smaller piece of carbon, but something else—an atom with completely different chemical properties. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was smaller than most of the boys in his class, but they had usually treated him as a peer. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Farther on, they fell in behind a smaller elephant, white as old bone and pulling an ornate cart. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And then, in a voice even softer and smaller: “In my memories, they seemed so happy with me.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

These are great worlds, composed largely of hydrogen and helium, with smaller amounts of hydrogen-rich gases such as methane, ammonia and water. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was smaller, Pia would sniff the pages, and once—when the salon was really backed up—she sniffed and sniffed until the strange mixture of glue, ink, and flowers made her nauseous. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Tired and hungry, I drag my feet, taking smaller and smaller steps until I am far behind everyone else. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brandon leaned against the wall, looking smaller than he had seemed moments before. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Smaller and smaller the circle ungrew, with all the former life of a broad grassy plain trapped inside. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was said that this stone contained a smaller stone and that the smaller stone contained a smaller stone which contained a yet smaller stone and so on. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he’d have somebody smaller than him to beat up on? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here farmland gave way to forest, the villages and holdfasts were smaller and farther apart, the hills higher and the valleys deeper. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The underside of the raft became host to a multitude of sea life, like the net but smaller in form. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger than you, but a lot smaller than Mom. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I feel it—the lift, the rising of the plane, and I see the ground stretching wide beneath us, everything getting smaller by the second. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He made some notes and added them to her file, making it bigger while she got smaller. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

In her black shirt that hangs below her bottom and pants that are frayed at the hem, she looks smaller than the rest of the group. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s smaller than my old school, and the kids aren’t so bad.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In front of the flying machine was a pair of smaller wings, about four feet long and about a foot apart, which the Wrights called horizontal rudders. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the centuries it had grown slowly in all directions, engulfing smaller buildings and courtyards as it spread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It grew smaller and smaller until it seemed nothing more than a blade of grass. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

An alternative trail, smaller and uneven, led southwest. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The center shape grew smaller as she found her twilight vision. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The enormous ball got smaller and smaller until, finally, it was only a glowing circle on the black silk of the night. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The asteroid belt is a great grinding mill, producing smaller and smaller pieces down to motes of dust. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neeley and I were smaller and could do with less and, of course, Papa helped some. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

May these, as we go to still higher energies, in turn be found to be made from still smaller particles? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

All we boys are Titid’s helpers—Marcel, Fortune, Lally, all us smaller boys who live in the shelter. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of my eyes was smaller than the other. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In smaller cinemas a pianist or organist would provide a similarly live accompaniment; Russian classical composer Dmitri Shostakovich supported himself in Leningrad in 1924-5 by doing just that. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Michael spread his hands, which were only slightly smaller than baseball mitts. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But I needed to know, among other things, why so many of the Cuttyhunk Islanders stayed away from me, as if they were afraid, when I was smaller than any of them. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It’s been so long since I’ve been in the actual office that it seems smaller now. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A sign hanging out in front said, SAI FONG—CHINESE NOVELTIES, and printed underneath, in smaller letters, was “also do hand laundry.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a tall bonfire in the middle of town, and smaller ones outside the houses where people would be giving cider to the weary workers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Scattered among these tenements were smaller dwellings that had given over their ground floors to some business, usually a tavern. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the planet is far from the Sun, it covers a much smaller arc in the same period of time, but that arc corresponds to a bigger area because the Sun is now more distant. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The peephole was a collection of circles getting smaller and smaller, converging on a dark round circle in the middle. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Twenty dollars buys an invitation to a smaller room, where a dancer brushes her breasts against the men’s faces. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He breaks the stick into smaller and smaller pieces. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She was much smaller than Bessie, his girl, but much softer. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the smaller girls did a kind of puppet dance while her fellow clowns laughed at her. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A red-haired lady at the desk gave her a pass card and pointed to a door that opened onto a corridor of smaller doors. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Originally, though, the smaller Canteen Creek alone occupied that channel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They passed through the gates and into a smaller hall, where queues were forming in front of twenty golden grilles housing as many lifts. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The ship was small, his cabin smaller, but the captain would not allow him abovedecks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The originals were to be designated the Alpha racetracks; the new, smaller racetracks, which would have thirty-six tanks arranged in a rectangle, with two ion sources each, were labeled Betas. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There were smaller buildings, too, all crowded shoulder to shoulder, with no room for a feather to pass betwixt them. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she could see the smaller structures—dust and barb and cell. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

An old crow cawed her thanks and flapped ahead with two smaller crows following after her, joining the rest as we started to walk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The bandage had become smaller, but it still covered all signs of injury. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

There plain for all to see were the footprints of two hobbits, one somewhat smaller than the other. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A tall man stepped forward, towering over the much smaller Mr. Ebgard. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

From its heights, West Point looked down on smaller forts on both sides of the river. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Funny how the smaller and quicker emerald ones were such a snap to catch. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was pleasant to see the earth getting smaller and smaller in our windows. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pink Face picked up the newspaper, and they both broke into a run, the smaller one struggling to keep up. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Against another wall stood a prayer stool and desk combined, with a smaller one beside it. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

As she did, details in the trunk became clearer, until she realized it wasn’t a single huge tree, but dozens of smaller trees that grew so close together, they acted as one. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The winged beasts clawed at their smaller opponents, but the fairies adroitly evaded the blows and slashed off their wings, sending the gargoyles hurtling to the ground. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The smaller re-wilded breeds that people were living on, hamsters and cats, hadn’t herded this far into the bush yet. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She showed the smaller animals how to arrange the kindling, and she showed the bigger animals how to arrange the logs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was gripped with curiosity as the running boy dashed through one neat green yard after another, getting smaller in Roy’s vision as he put a wider distance between himself and the school bus. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched as she became smaller and smaller, until the meal sack over her shoulder was just a white speck. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained that if they were up any higher, at the conventional level for pictures, the smaller children wouldn’t be able to see them. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the pleasant, shady streets leading to the rowing course out in Griinau, strands of smaller flags with swastikas were strung from tree to tree. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

One of the smaller hunters began to wail. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A white hand of no particular sex held another, smaller, blue and yellow bouquet. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking down, he saw people in the streets and on terraces, growing steadily smaller until the sleigh had drifted so far above the city that it spread out like a map. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe there was something smaller and slower he could do. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The smaller spiral-shelled snails were cheaper, piled high in baskets, but she could not buy them, could not think of them as food; they had always been, to her, playthings for village children. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of the smaller girls salivated so heavily the chocolate dribbled syruplike from the comer of her mouth. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still barreling at highway speeds, it closed in on the smaller car coming the other way, the distance narrowing by the instant. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But his publisher did not think one huge book would sell well and encouraged him to publish smaller books about more specific topics, which is what he did. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today he wore his own face, which always gave him the strange sensation of being smaller. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

And a smaller television sitting on top of it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It feels like the room is getting smaller. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

We sharpen their ears to the malicious, hardly audible buzz of the smaller shells that are not easily distinguishable. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were smaller last time I saw you,” he says, looking Poppet over from her boots to her upswept red hair. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He moved his ships forward to engage in battle, confident that size and might would enable them to overcome Octavian’s smaller ships. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

When A is less than 1, the population gets smaller and smaller and goes extinct. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He'd drink three whiskey sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, then fly to the moon in a command module smaller than my Rover. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have been on the road for eighteen days now and our food ration is getting smaller with each passing day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, the next crop was smaller. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The engines roared, the ship moved, and minutes later she opened her eyes to see the houses of Nunivak shrink to specks and the island grow smaller and smaller. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Societies with effective conflict resolution, sound decision making, and harmonious economic redistribution can develop better technology, concentrate their military power, seize larger and more productive territories, and crush autonomous smaller societies one by one. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lost, we crawled under a sweep of pine boughs, and I curled myself around my sister, who was so much smaller. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was with another, smaller coyote that looked the same. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Across her knees lay an ancient shield—a battered circle of wood and bronze, painted with the likeness of Akhlys herself holding a shield, so the image seemed to go on forever, smaller and smaller. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was in a library, not the big one with Death and Victory, a smaller one. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to fill all four baskets,” said the smaller man, “and then distribute a flower to everyone in the Old Town.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the microphone sat on the table before you, at other times a smaller, cylindrical microphone was hung on a cord around your neck. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked even smaller and skinnier than he really was because all he had to wear were old clothes of Dudley’s, and Dudley was about four times bigger than he was. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When she was smaller they sometimes played at having crumbs in their clothes, like the crumbs in the rhino’s skin. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In a pair of baggy pants that used to belong to Mr. Potter and a sweatshirt he’d found in the woods, Georgie looked smaller than ever. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Rex is considerably smaller than the tiger, with mats in his mane and ribs showing under his dull coat. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He cleared the T. rex trap and reached a sandy beach where some smaller dinosaurs were building nests. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Newton’s law of gravity also tells us that the farther apart the bodies, the smaller the force. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the moons one more time, the smaller one chasing the larger one, two brightnesses up there, still light enough to cast shadows, ignorant of the troubles of men. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In real life she was a little paler and a little smaller than the picture suggested, but of course Basta still recognized her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The audience size on October 30 was, therefore, probably much smaller than the six million estimated by the Princeton study. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He seemed somehow smaller than I remembered him being. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our living room was even smaller, with the kitchen set in the corner. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Her face looked smaller, like a dried-up flower. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The kouros it most resembled, it turned out, was a smaller, fragmentary statue that was found by a British art historian in Switzerland in 1990. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The foot appeared to be considerably smaller than Curly’s own; smaller, too, than those of the husky teenaged burglar. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smaller one, terrified and shrieking, dove to the floor and grabbed my knees. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Thomson, Ernest Rutherford’s mentor, discovered the electron in 1897, thereby establishing that atoms were divisible into even smaller particles—“corpuscles,” he called them. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Let’s divide the line into even smaller segments, using, say, a ruler one-sixth of an inch long. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They floated down lazily but were followed by smaller, drier flakes that kept coming for days. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Here, shrew! You are smaller than I am! Climb through, then see if you can tug me backwards by my feet. Come on, move yourself if you want to live!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then Uncle George came with a smaller bucket of syrup, and everybody ate the hot hasty pudding with maple syrup for supper. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks smaller out here in front of the school than she does at home. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I think with each generation the house had grown smaller inside, more crowded. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks smaller than me now, and weaker too, and I’m the cripple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I thought how nice it would be to grow smaller and smaller—until I was a dot of nothing. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hunters circled them and began to walk toward each other, drawing the circle smaller and smaller. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cherokee confederacy was thus formed not by conquest but by the amalgamation of previously jealous smaller entities, which merged only when threatened with destruction by powerful external forces. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It took some inspired deductions by the astronomer William Herschel to work out that they were nowhere near planet sized but much smaller. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

This giant was smaller than a lot of monsters he had faced, but something about him made Percy’s skin crawl. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The ceiling of my tiny room slanted downward in two corners, making it seem even smaller than it really was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And what it looked like was somebody trying to make a smaller target. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It continued to bend and fold itself into smaller triangles and even smaller diamond shapes until at last it formed a four-legged figure that then sprouted a tail, a head, and finally, a horn. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I looked at the table setting and was confused when I saw two forks, one smaller than the other. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Sounds, colors, textures, all mash together in an enormous symphonic assault on my senses as I shrink down, smaller and smaller. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Pax lay still while the smaller fox sniffed and licked him, too weak to waste energy batting him away. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, the states with the highest abortion rates in the 1970s experienced the greatest crime drops in the 1990s, while states with low abortion rates experienced smaller crime drops. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Most of the smaller birds went out the window in the loft, but the others streamed out the doorway around the stone-still silhouette, just as Anya realized the person was too short to be Sigurd. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

No excess flesh, a flat belly, small behind and smaller bosom—Rachael had been modeled on the Celtic type of build, anachronistic and attractive. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it makes it smaller in the drawer so there’s more room for other stuff.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Another burst and in the noise you could hear the smaller noise of the brick and dirt raining down. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

My time with granddaddy slipped away as the domestic mill wheel gathered momentum, grinding its principal raw material—namely, me—into smaller and smaller scraps. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

What I actually want is a smaller forehead and friends I can trust. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Inside the building were a single large laboratory and a smaller lab for the “professor,” a room for experimental equipment, and a lecture theater. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

That was around the same time the human brain grew larger and our teeth and jaws grew smaller. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Now,” he said, considering the doorways opposite, two smaller doors flanking the great central double door; “Now,” he said, and selected the nearest. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“At least, for hundreds of thousands of ye; rs. Have you a different sort of sun in your work ?” “Yes, it’s smaller and yellower. And it gives a good deal more heat.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

My voice was smaller than I wanted it to be. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

My room seemed smaller than it usually was, like it was closing in on me. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

An interval that is a half-step smaller than a perfect or a minor interval is called diminished. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

One of the smaller sitting rooms had been cleared for him and his wife and four assistants, one of whom was fanning him with a gilded fan although the air conditioner was on. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Were you smaller back then?” said the gosling. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If she’d thought things would be any different at the smaller Catholic school her mother had been pushing her to consider, Cas would have tried it. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I was in a different and smaller arena, an arena for whom the only audience was ourselves and our oppressors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom is smaller than her in every way, but you wouldn’t know it from the way Carla’s shrinking away from her. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

To celebrate my graduation to a smaller cast, Papi says he’s going to get me a typewriter. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The mobile home became smaller and smaller until it was a dot against an expansive landscape. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Johnny, smaller and leaner, became a proficient and scrappy fighter but never achieved his brother’s success. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re dragging all the smaller tables to form one large table so that we all have to eat together. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And saw, as he approached, that there were other, smaller markers all around it. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the old days the school was much smaller, but as time’s gone by, more and more portable classrooms have been added to the fields behind the school. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

When the Boston-New York train arrives at smaller stations along the route, the conductor announces, “All doors will not open.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Matherson is the menace! He hassles all the smaller kids on the bus.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He talks better than Scipio. And he's even smaller than me. But she probably wouldn't like the swearing.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He indicated the blurred shape of the smaller figure. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The big liner passed smaller ships and pleasure craft flying swastikas from their sterns. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Through the 1990s, they got smaller and cheaper, and service got better until 1998, when the technology hit a Tipping Point and suddenly everyone had a cell phone. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sagan’s dwarf sun is much smaller, but so close to the planet it creates a tidal lock,” Dad says. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Below the red writing there’s a line of smaller print, in black, with the outline of a winged eye on either side of it: God Is a National Resource. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was smaller than I had imagined. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

For a while everything seemed routine: the crowd of people at the church, the line of cars with their head-lights on, the smaller group clustered around the grave for the final farewell. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Kaltain kicked and thrashed against the guards’ grip, but the king’s table became smaller and smaller. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“My mama says you should never keep your troubles to yourself. She says if you share ’em with somebody, they get smaller.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Animals are symbols. Tlingit tribes have two divisions—the Ravens and the Wolves. Closely related members form smaller clans. I’m from the Killer Whale clan.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

My inability to bluff had cost us smaller battles than this one. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But the smaller forms of damage—bruises, cuts, scrapes—did not seem worth mentioning. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked in and saw a similar room, but smaller, with one bed along the window and another along the opposite wall. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And all too soon she stood before me, smaller than memory would have her but more glorious than any recall. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gestured again to the greystone peering over the tops of smaller trees by the roadside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The portion was smaller than the last she’d tasted, but her belly still rumbled at the smell of it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Next to them were six smaller bowls, each one holding a different color of liquid food dye. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Hundreds, maybe thousands of students smaller than an academy. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It’s just 3,491 feet to the top, but, surrounded as it is by much smaller hills, it looks considerably bigger. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s one story, and considerably smaller than mine. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Around mouthfuls of rabbit and blackberries she confesses that even the rations for the white folks have become smaller and smaller since so many families have arrived in the past couple of weeks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

One of the smaller boys took a shuffling step backward. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Larger wagons were pulled by horses, smaller carts by people. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

R is big, but each letter after is a little smaller, like if the word kept going and going, it’d disappear. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boats became smaller as they got closer to the death house in the distance. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

One, the smaller man, was heading up the ridge on his horse, but way off to the side safely beyond pistol range. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climbed a hill and turned right into pine woods on a smaller road, and turned right on a very narrow road and turned right again on wheel tracks on pine needles. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally they entered a smaller cavern that looked like a combination loading zone and throne room. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When the smaller boys grew too tired to walk, the older boys took turns carrying them on their backs. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a large heart with lots of hearts growing smaller inside, and piercing from the outside rim to the smallest heart was an arrow. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watch the yellow carriage getting smaller and smaller, fading away into the distance, the little boy standing on the steps outside the school, watching his parents vanish. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I pushed her away, glad she was a little smaller than I was, and turned my attention back to her son. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When the smaller, quieter Beach Road turned off of Route 1, she told them to go on it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Much smaller. You won’t get lost there. It’s a small Jesuit Catholic school.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Now draw a smaller circle within that circle.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The bedroom opens into a large arched dressing room that connects with a closet that connects with another smaller closet that has a small door at the back, which I can’t open. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He has fairly short brown hair, stands a bit smaller than medium height, and wears a shirt, black jeans, and blue athletic shoes. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

With the bed unfolded, the room feels even smaller. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now I was alone, leaving the smaller cities that had winked out long ago like Christmas lights on a faulty wire. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

On the second floor she found a long corridor, where one door was open to an empty lecture hall and another to a smaller room where two Scholars stood discussing something at a blackboard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were also many rabbits—large, gray ones with a mix of reddish fur, smaller fast gray ones that he saw only at dawn. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gravel road was smoother, the stones smaller and the tree branches hung down around the path and nearly covered us. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We came in ready to buy it, but I’ve got some questions now. The back looks smaller than I thought. How big’s the gas tank?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Over the carcass of the horse, they built a platform of hewn logs; trunks of smaller trees and limbs from the greater, and the thickest straightest branches they could find. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A Pepette also had responsibility for making smaller posters, which went up in the school halls at the beginning of each week and were transferred to the gym for the mandatory Friday morning pep rally. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rub the instrument across her stomach again, and it flattens with each stroke, the extra skin and bulk beneath it melting away, her waist growing smaller. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But even if she wasn’t leaving Wales quite yet, it was essential that she move to a smaller and more manageable house. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

His answer: assemble machines much smaller than living cells, materials stronger and lighter than any available today. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to prove to them that they did not have the right to pick on me because I was smaller than they were. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was rougher than ours, thicker, fitted in smaller pieces. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was because the girl was smaller than him that Scipio sounded a little less frightened. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were both far smaller than my friend from yesterday, the one who had tried to grab Ashley off the street, the one who had my arms pinned until I head-butted him. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He saw the great dome of the main observatory, a smaller one a little way off, and between them a group of administration buildings and domestic quarters. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was even smaller than her,” said another, “and when...” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you trade that smaller suitcase for a bigger one I have?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The withered land and the people’s wasis and the smaller mountains spread below me tiny and bound to the earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need those,” urged the smaller man. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mine is smaller because not all girls go to school, but Papa says it’s important to be educated. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The Office/Camp Shop was the sturdiest of the structures we had passed so far, built in a more permanent style than the smaller log cabins with their dark green doors. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A smaller shape with wings fluttered up behind him - a harpy? Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The older we got, though, the smaller the branches we brought, until Papa started to go out himself to get the stick. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to these smaller things, there was one huge issue on the investigative front. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Because Mars is smaller than earth, Mars’ gravity is not as strong. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abel was very small, even smaller than I, and he should never have teased Horse. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rose’s was way smaller than mine, but she spent more time adding real-life details to hers. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Their brains are much smaller than mine, but they know how to fly, and I don't. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They reached the smaller path leading toward the horses, and Kaisa stepped back to allow Ash to go ahead of her, as if she were a lady. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A much smaller and warmer hand had enclosed his and was pulling him upward. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The desalination machines were smaller than I had expected. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was smaller and darker, and the only food it served was pickled eggs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a Common Welsh Green over there, the smaller one — a Swedish Short- Snout, that blue-gray — and a Chinese Fireball, that’s the red.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

You’re giving up a smaller dream for a bigger one that you actually have a chance of achieving. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The repair shop was growing smaller in the background. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Basically, the lighter skinned you are, and the smaller and straighter your nose is, the “prettier” you are. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The thing was smaller than I—but wasn’t I being a foolhardy Goliath here? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In universes whose dark-energy value is much smaller, the repulsive push changes to an attractive pull, causing those universes to collapse back on themselves so quickly that again galaxies wouldn’t form. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I therefore kept them on my left hand, as well as the island, which grew smaller and smaller, behind me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smaller boy—Jacob—says, "So you still have it?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He got down on one knee to pick up the pieces of the wheel, dropping the larger half in his palm, pinching at the smaller piece with his fingers. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

People arrive at the church with smaller bundles of beans, oil, rice, and lentils. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He went around the smaller dunes and carefully crested the larger ones. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a Wilderness Adventures team—then a smaller team. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

For one second I saw Beau looking down at me from the log, getting smaller as I rushed away, and then the water spun me and I was gone. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"It looks smaller," Theon confessed, "though perhaps that is only the distance." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But the circle was a little smaller now, our chairs closer together. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

An entire phalanx of Cyclopes charged forward, knocking smaller monsters out of the way. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There’s maybe seven buildings total in Farbranch, smaller than Prentisstown and just buildings after all but somehow so different, too, it feels like I’ve wandered right off New World into some whole other place altogether. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was smaller than the laundry and stank of garbage. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Their house looks like a smaller version of the White House in Washington, D.C., without so many pillars in front and not nearly so tall and wide. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

A smaller one wiped his own runny nose on the back of his hand. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All over Levittown and the smaller, nearby communities that feed into Truman, it isn’t usually poverty I observe, but rather the steady, low-simmering tumult of economic and family instability. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now they wanted to rent an apartment smaller and cheaper but better situated and generally more practical than the present one, which Gregor had found. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a house-that-Jack-built sequence, in which the large carnivores had eaten the smaller carnivores, that had eaten the herbivores, that had eaten the plankton, that had absorbed the poison from the water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He could see them in their leather flight jackets, their dark mantles, having just come down from doing things that smaller, punier men could never do, doing things that only gods could do. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to start there, in a smaller group, before he’d change things up. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The entire trailer was smaller than our dorm room. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then it would be passed through the one just smaller, and so through every hole in turn, growing longer and slimmer all the time, until it changed from an ingot into wire. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

When I pushed open the door to the shop, a much smaller bell tinkled, and a woman looked up from her perch behind a counter. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They circled each other playfully before settling to the right among a cluster of smaller stars, forming a new constellation just below Ursa Major—woman and her two children, forever reunited in the sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Climb into the back of that one and hide,” she commanded, pointing to the smaller of the two wagons, “until I think of what to do with you.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were five young ones in this settlement, one almost grown and the others somewhere in between, and being smaller than the adults, they could not manage the seedpod wheels. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Great Hall seemed to fly away, become smaller, shrink, as Harry reeled backward from the doorway. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Though she is only a few inches smaller than me, she seems tiny somehow, her stick-thin body swimming in her dress, her face pinched and frightened, like that of a starved mouse. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When the men had gone home, he remained to talk with Mamá and Salvador, and Lupita again was sent to put the smaller ones to bed. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes, suddenly remembering Mama and Papa standing that way, Mama smaller than Sarah, her hair fair against Papa's shoulder. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Much smaller, I thought, and not nearly so menacing, and in the bright sunlight it was hard to picture what had happened on this ground some twenty years ago. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This one is Isabela,” he says, pointing to the smaller one. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I am broad-shouldered and well over six feet, while she is smaller than a Scholar woman, even, with a deceptively willowy form. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She could see the figures of the King and the Courtiers growing smaller and smaller until they disappeared below. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

There were fish— big fish with protruding foreheads and very long dorsal fins, dorados they are called, and smaller fish, lean and long, unknown to me, and smaller ones still—and there were sharks. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think a smaller time frame makes it any less unwise.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The third floor held a smaller bedroom and a study. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Like, the smaller things get, the crazier science becomes. When you start talking about p-branes and quantum immortality and entanglement...Well, it’s just cool is all.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They fed her special soups and brushed her hair, and Estella began to look like herself again, only smaller. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dying star gets smaller and smaller and smaller. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

My part was the smaller one, though I was the engine of the play’s moral, which was that men who take great risks often suffer great consequences. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are great hunters, going after wildebeestes and zebras, as well as smaller creatures. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

We're out of the way, all right, a small village, we're none of us getting younger, and the village is getting smaller. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The women appeared from the shadows to whisk the smaller boys off to bed. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Big structures, such as mountain ranges, survive tens of millions of years; smaller impact craters, perhaps a hundred thousand'; and large- scale human artifacts only some thousands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lower shelves contain smaller boxes and open trays of fireworks. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The fifth-grade boys, bursting with new importance, ordered the fourth graders this way and that, while the smaller boys tried to include themselves without being conspicuous. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The smaller of the two girls looked a few years younger than the twins; the other might have been a year older. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the smaller fires had already been doused, and a team of warriors was now battling the main one near the giant tent. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He’s eager to move to a smaller firm, to have some domestic commissions, to work with fewer people. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was smaller than Mychal, but he took up more room—Davis’s gangly limbs occupied space like an army holds territory. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The situation is similar to that of heavy bodies falling vertically, but it is easier to observe because the speeds are smaller. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra pushed at the water with both hands, a churning motion that generated smaller but more focused splashes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Neeley turned to a smaller boy and did the same to his cap. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in fact in the rest areas in the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico that I first saw the smaller birds make use of this intellect. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I was just starting to cook when I heard a loud thud from Mr. Loomis’s bedroom, and then a series of smaller thumping noises. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Instead, Briares looked like he was trying to shrink even smaller. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

So many people with far smaller problems are so self-absorbed, their eyes glaze over if you speak for more than thirty seconds. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Carter crowd, far smaller than the Permian crowd even though they had a much shorter distance to travel, broke into exuberant cries. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a workbench was a smaller press for notifications, proclamations, broadsides, trade cards. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One is a wolf-like, white German shepherd, and the other is a much smaller mixed breed. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Chi-Boy walked the perimeter of the room before setting the candle down on a small round table in front of another empty fireplace, on a much smaller scale than those in the great room. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He told her to go back into the courtyard and follow the gravel path around the perimeter; it disappeared through a high stone archway that opened into another, smaller courtyard. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Lady Constance seemed to have shrunk a size smaller just by virtue of standing within this vast, imposing space. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He repositioned the nest, made a new and smaller dent with his thumb, and struck again. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He poured a smaller drink and reread his last sentence. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Boy21 sits with us in the smaller, mostly white section of the stadium, which makes him stick out a little, but no one says anything. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was practical, in a basic sort of way, an efficient shoplifter, and occasional thug who did not care about being liked as long as the other kids, all smaller, did what he said. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

But the number of houses in smaller neighborhoods had continued to increase, drawing the attention of upwardly mobile families who, like their white counterparts, had a vision of postwar success that included home ownership. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Mandy would only use small magic, which was smaller help than I needed. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The smaller of the two—but not by much—was a sloppy blond boy, rosy-cheeked and gum-chewing, with a relentlessly cheery demeanor and his fists thrust deep in the pockets of his knee-sprung trousers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

You wouldn’t think that would make a car feel smaller, but it does. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was much easier for him, now that he was smaller, to negotiate his way through his crammed shop, but he still tried to swagger past the shelves like he used to in the past. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I look down at Voxy, as the only home he’s ever known grows smaller in the distance. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

With his keen senses, he riffled through the contents of the packs without opening them, carefully avoiding the thing at the bottom of the smaller one. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was another reminder of how much smaller Grandma’s house was compared to their place in Atlanta. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wanted to take in his every move among the people, to witness the telling presence that I’d seen glimpses of but on a much smaller scale, at the office, on building stoops, inside restaurants. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can't stop looking at Rue, smaller than ever, a baby animal curled up in a nest of netting. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I moved the phone to see the ground with my own eyes, and sure enough, the hole had gotten smaller. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The boys followed with the food: a large plastic bowl full of steaming rice and smaller ceramic bowls containing helpings of warm cassava, beans, potatoes, and stewed greens. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

If the target is well known, the number of intermediates is even smaller, especially if you have a link with one or two celebrities. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched my mother grow smaller and smaller until she disappeared into the door of Doctor Gordon's office building. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

How could little babies smaller than Ruth May speak this whole other language so perfectly? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you like something to eat, Granny?” said the smaller of the two tsotsis. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were smaller, and the edges looked fresher; that was all. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Let me go, Red,” the smaller boy pleaded. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A well temperament might have several pure fifths, for example, and several fifths that are smaller than a pure fifth, but not so small that they are "wolf" fifths. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

What is the limit of something that gets smaller and smaller and smaller without stopping? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Though the shingles of the original storefront were smaller than those of the addition, they blended together fine, he thought; plus with the sign as a distraction, who would notice? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Lee came in an hour later there were hundreds of spirals, and they had become smaller and smaller. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I spent my time doing routine housekeeping chores, like adding chlorine to the drinking water, and watching the moon get smaller and the beautiful earth grow larger and more inviting as each hour went by. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little Eva, who had continued to carefully take apart each doll to remove a smaller one from inside, finally removed the tiniest doll, and tottered over to Jinx. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

As the collapsing region got smaller, it would spin faster—just as skaters spinning on ice spin faster as they draw in their arms. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps so, but then skeptics must explain why the cultural divide between Indians and Spaniards, who did deeply influence each other, was so much smaller. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Just as we did with the stain, let’s make the carpet sizes even smaller to get a better approximation of the size of the rationals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They knew that atoms themselves are composed of even smaller particles. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like a different man, a smaller man, with longer hair, almost all of it white. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I shrank back and away from the scene, watching it grow smaller, and smaller, and smaller until the dark, cloudy haze of Rob’s mind swallowed it whole. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I did my best, but I couldn’t find any smaller ones.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Of course, smaller circles within this circle are also possible. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried smaller shops — bookshops, stationery stores, gift boutiques. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I know it’s boiled long enough to kill any cryptosporidium, I block Crick’s view and pick a smaller piece out with forceps. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Worries and fears return as the canal grows ever smaller. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his big hand over my smaller one and looked me in the eye. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s receding now, growing smaller, but the woman—Boss’s partner—is standing there, holding her gun. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They made the ghetto smaller after that first Aktion, drawing in the fences like a noose. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Looking at it, Zeitoun realized that it was not one long cage, but a series of smaller, divided cages. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Next to her were a cluster of egg-shaped ovals and smaller water monsters. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Ahead of her, the heavy wooden doors to the palace were closed, but a smaller door set within them was unbarred, and she went to the door and pushed it open. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man with hair as slick as a pregreased cake pan pushed an enormous flour barrel on a wheeled platform to fill the smaller containers at each station. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Chestnut was especially popular—not the imported European chestnut roasted on Manhattan street corners in the fall, but the smaller, soft-shelled, deeply sweet native American chestnut, now almost extinguished by chestnut blight. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Though it was lighter than he expected, the smaller pack gave the impression of being heavy and unwieldy, like a brimming bucket of water in danger of overflowing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Letting the air out like that makes him even smaller. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how they got there, but I noticed that in the smaller puddles the fish were dying. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s as good of a lead as any, though I wish the area was a little smaller.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And then I felt smaller because the teacher was taking roll and he called out my name name. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was smaller than Matthias and did not have the advantage of flight like the sparrow. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Next he moved through the hidden passageways to the ring of clocks around the train platforms, and then to the backs of the smaller clocks that faced the interior offices, including the Station Inspector’s. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Stanley told him he needed to write smaller, or else they'd run out of paper real quick. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A huge boy and two smaller children—a boy and a girl. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then I see someone else—someone smaller, with a more delicate frame—enter the cell with the swoosh of a black cape. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The new agricultural territories were not only far smaller than those of ancient foragers, but also far more artificial. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one thing to do: as inconspicuously as possible, the four of us began digging in the area where the two smaller pieces of manuscript would be. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hippogriff took off into the air....He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them...then a cloud drifted across the moon.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Even smaller doses of many other insecticides would be lethal. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The pressure waves appeared smaller—even the boulder didn’t seem as large. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Amaka would divide the rice into smaller portions to blow the chaff out afterward. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Great spines ran along its back, and as it turned, I saw that each one was comprised of hundreds of smaller spikes, jutting out in all directions. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was smaller than the Kidwells’, and, moreover, he shared it with a wife, three active children, and a perpetually functioning television set. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The harder she tried to pull it over his head, the smaller it seemed to become, until finally it might have fitted a hand puppet, but certainly wouldn’t fit Harry. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

After trying it on, she’d put the box away under her chair, not noticing the smaller box lost among the tissue. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tomb was smaller than usual—only the top half of the deceased person lay inside. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The smaller boy had the ring of iron keys. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The smaller stumps he could jump two at a time, and he could walk on the top rail of the fence without being afraid. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other boy would hesitate before tormenting smaller kids. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Each target got smaller the farther back it was placed, and because the room was so long, the final target was nearly seventy yards away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Beneath that, in smaller letters, it said, “Protected Wilderness Preserve.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

These meteors are made by tiny grains, smaller than a mustard seed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His book has clear vinyl pages, like an album for trading cards, only with smaller pockets to fit the word cards. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Phnom Penh, Pa once told me the Youns are just like us but with whiter skin and smaller noses. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little Walder had become Lord Ramsay’s best boy and grew more like him every day, but the smaller Frey was made of different stuff and seldom took part in his cousin’s games and cruelties. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Way smaller than a standard Rhode Island Red, I hoped. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Subsequently I went for smaller sharks, pups really, and I killed them myself. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is smaller than the graduation robes, but not by much. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Jam tried to imagine a smaller him, if he had that voice then, that laugh. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He shone his own smaller penlight into her eyes, sighed, stood. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Okay! Here’s the plan: We’ll drop behind this hill to be out of sight of the gym, then circle around those smaller hills and sneak up from the back.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mike kneeled by the fire, lighting one of the smaller sticks with a cigarette lighter. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I keep going back to what Anna said—that maybe I’ve blown this situation up to make the good-bye feel smaller. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He stretched out his arms and they became branches, from which smaller branches shot out and grew leaves. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s third largest landmass, considerably smaller than the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The smaller red wolf I’d seen with the first did the same. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Bean shaped and smaller than a speck of sand, the fruit fly embryo begins its life in a whir of activity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The younger and smaller cub, still lacking a name, spent the night alone in his cage, in the city menagerie where he was to live. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He had to be kept by himself, and his one-ape enclosure was a lot smaller than the main one. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The houses simply refused to get any smaller. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The rough track she was following had petered out, and she was clambering with more and more discomfort among tumbled boulders and smaller stones. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

George’s voice sounded much smaller now that she was speaking her own words. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Taking the cross in his great hands—where it seemed even smaller than it was—he peered at it with his shrewd eyes, even feeling it with his fingers. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The closer we came to the land, the stranger and smaller it looked. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word is written smaller along the bed frame, and again on my pillow. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Small fish swam everywhere, some narrow and long, some round, most of them three or four inches long, some a bit larger and many smaller. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner, he realizes, sits a third person, a massive figure camped sleepily in an armchair intended for a much smaller man. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were brittle and peeling—smaller than I remembered, too—and looking at them now, as an almost adult, it struck me how blatant the fakery was. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Later, when it was time for the smaller children in the cabin to go to bed, Sounder’s master got up, put on his overall jacket, and went outside. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed the épée group into the adjacent cafeteria, where we were broken down into smaller groups of ten or so based on our ability. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Of course, there is no one giant hand, but there are billions of smaller hands on earth, working furiously to change their home. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ships smaller than the great war dromonds of the green lands, aye, but thrice the size of any common longship, with deep hulls and savage rams, fit to meet the king’s own fleets in battle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was more or less living in the kitchen and the smaller of the two libraries. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It was smaller than I had expected—as places reconstructed from borrowed memories inevitably are—but also duller and dustier. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He set the bottle on the bench and he took a screwdriver and punched a hole in one of the cans of oil and then punched a smaller one to help it drain. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The tea was in smaller bins: beautiful bins with sloping covers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have to understand how moving this way or that changes a picture—how objects far away look smaller, objects closer look bigger. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Square footage-wise, it feels smaller than our kitchen and dining area at home, so I’m guessing cabin fever is going to come on fast and strong. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Everyone slowly pushed the smaller tables together to make one long table spanning the entire width of the restaurant. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The snow deadened his careful footsteps, over the smaller rocks, over the low thicket of leafless bushes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the higher of the two shelves, he placed the smaller pieces. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

This was how they did the lab preps, the AP and regular-track students lumped together before they broke up into smaller groups for the actual experiments. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Below that, in smaller letters, the stats: Sixteen years of age, five feet three inches, 110 pounds. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was very much like the tollbooths he’d seen many times on family trips, except of course it was much smaller and purple. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

This political definition of “tribe” is thus often much smaller than what linguists and cultural anthropologists would define as a tribe—namely, a group that shares language and culture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled gently at the top of the smaller grocery bag. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They might have been enemies, but the thought of a world without the Beauty in it made the seas seem a bit smaller, a little less grand. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I watched him grow smaller and smaller with each step. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The place is small, but seems even smaller with all the junk spread around it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

As the warhorse plodded south along the river, the shops grew smaller and meaner, the trees along the street became a row of stumps. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We all screamed until we met a big bounce against the tarmac followed by smaller bounces and bumps. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The next morning I surveyed my new abode and discovered a swimming pool in the backyard, and two smaller bedrooms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the coast, where Tisquantum and Massasoit lived, villages often were smaller and looser, though no less permanent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The relevant area is not the area of an island but that of a political unit, which could be either larger or smaller than a single island. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Zero's hole was smaller than all the others. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Children would step aside when he drew near, and the smaller ones often ducked behind their mothers’ skirts. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

They had spent most of it out on the ice, shivering beside a pair of holes they’d cut in the smaller of the frozen lakes, with fishing lines clutched in mitten-clumsy hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was wound up as tight as a spring, and I thought that any second he might pounce on Dusty Muleman, who was smaller and flabbier. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

For some reason—perhaps because they were smaller—the mice were kept in cages-within-a-cage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the smaller monitor was a graph that started high on the left and descended to the right at about a forty-five-degree angle. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He begged, pleaded for her hand until the light grew even smaller. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dodged around clumps of smaller children, who watched gleefully, relieved not to be the ones about to get the life pummeled out of them. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

No longer able to afford rent for her shack, Granny moved from Fifteenth Avenue to a smaller shack on Eighth Ave- nue. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Triangles that repeat in smaller and smaller versions, forever.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She brought her knees together very firmly, as if to make herself a smaller, more compact unit. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Scene three quickly follows, in which men and women occupy centre stage and most large animals, along with many smaller ones, are gone. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sibling category has one of the smaller quotas, which leads to the long wait times. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

We also figured out a smaller percentage for me. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

However, these early Homo sapiens still differed from us in skeletal details, had brains significantly smaller than ours, and were grossly different from us in their artifacts and behavior. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The foothills and the smaller peaks were lost in shadow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The smaller bonobo had a wide sweet face and ribs stark, like pencils in a row. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Since most of them are considerably smaller than our sun, only about 1/10th of these stars should be considered reasonable candidates for supporting planets with life. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“New Ghis is an island, and a much smaller port than this. We would be closer, yes, but we could find ourselves stranded. And New Ghis has allied with the Yunkai’i.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The smaller of them was carrying two plastic bags filled to bursting; the other was hauling the goats off the loading platform. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"It's down here," Brother Jack said, making for the end of the large room where I saw a row of smaller ones, only one of which was lighted. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two smaller aircraft line the corridor with smoke, and the lead bomber salvos its payload, and eleven others follow suit. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her four-poster bed and my smaller cot were tucked into a corner of our apartments on the seventh floor of Maison Rouge de la Beauté. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Gell-Mann’s theory was that all hadrons were made up of still smaller, even more fundamental particles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Even this canoe was too big for me to pull easily in and out of the water, so I set about making it smaller. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boulders, bushes—some smaller strands even clung to our clothes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And so we know that particles that were thought to be “elementary” thirty years ago are, in fact, made up of smaller particles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was a small car but I was still worried because I was even smaller. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Even the Big Woods seemed smaller under so much sky. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shook out five green pods from a smaller frosted glass jar. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It’s harder to move around, and we live in a smaller area in the north. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with the entire confederation now smaller than one of its former communities, the best option seemed to be allowing the Pilgrims to remain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When it boils, she takes it off the fire, pours half of it into a smaller can, and gives it to me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Grunting, the adzukulu carefully lowered the coffin with ropes, into the smaller compartment. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Frank stared at the back of the armchair; the man inside it seemed to be even smaller than his servant, for Frank couldn’t even see the back of his head. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They poured their final precipitate into a platinum dish smaller than a dime, boiled off the liquid, and slathered the residue with a layer of Duco Cement. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Some are smaller than a Ziploc, while others are as big as a Hefty lawn and leaf bag. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a bad cut on his head which was still bleeding and another smaller one over his eye. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But though his reasons were selfish, it made things much more comfortable for all the smaller countries round Calormen. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

A lump still clung to the bolt itself, and a smaller one to the socket on the doorframe. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

This time a series of smaller thumps, like someone was knocking in return. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Otto finally lost interest in the smaller bonobo and climbed on my back, wrapping his arms around my neck and barking furiously at the dead sister. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The opening out to the sea grew smaller and finally disappeared. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence, the room appeared to shrink even smaller. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Atoms were the ultimate particles, forever frustrating our attempts to break them into smaller pieces. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had just allowed himself to be punched dead in the face, in front of his friends, by a smaller guy. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“So am I. It feels good, sort of. Anyway it’s dry in here. Remember this place? It seems smaller.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a few minutes the roof of the bus remains visible among the stunted trees, a tiny white gleam in a wild green sea, growing smaller and smaller, and then it’s gone. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gross features of the fair envisioned in the plan concealed a billion smaller obstacles that the public and most of the exposition’s own directors had no idea existed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I have a smaller brain, right? So less room for possibilities.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, every grave has a hidden compartment at the bottom—usually a smaller cubbyhole carved into the side of the pit—where the coffin slides in. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Even though she was smaller than Pong, she felt like a giant. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She pulls me close to her, until I'm smaller than I knew I could be. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Two figures, the larger one tugging the smaller along, kept to the top of the cutbank. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He flicked through a sheaf of fifties, added a smaller stack of twenties, weighed them in his hand, then passed them over to Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The greater number were on the right, where the Firienfeld was wider; and on the left there was a smaller camp, in the midst of which stood a tall pavilion. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“When I came back from the army I felt it had changed. Everything seemed smaller.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not because of a creature smaller than themselves. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A smaller group of younger chimps goes out into a small forest patch near the sanctuary with one of the Congolese keepers. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A high school graduate, Dwight Blevins was laid off from his own warehouse job and ended up with another one that paid less and offered a smaller pension. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We can see two beds taking up all the space in the bedroom, a great acre of a bed and a smaller one near the window. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The smaller fifth has traditionally been called a wolf fifth because of its unpleasant sound. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

For once, the boy looked like a smaller replica of his father. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She reached down to touch the hot, wet, moving mass, surely smaller than anything human, and could feel that it was human after all—fingers, toes, nails, nose. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flame of hope that burned in him was smaller now, but no less bright or fierce, and he tended it almost daily with visions of the pot he would make. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was only now, looking at Em all curled up, that Bridge got it: smaller bodies meant smaller targets. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She buried her hopes of becoming a doctor and decided to pray for smaller miracles. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He seemed smaller now when you were close. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though much smaller and entirely round, the room somewhat resembled the Room of Requirement on the unforgettable occasion that it had transformed itself into a gigantic labyrinth comprised of centuries of hidden objects. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“We were told these beasts are smaller than the queen’s monster.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For, while it was not quite square, it was definitely not round, and for its size it was larger than almost any other big package of smaller dimension that he’d ever seen. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Folding the paper in half, he walked quickly to his desk, ripping the sheet into smaller and smaller bits as he went. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

‘Yes,’ he said, ‘they are quite plain: a hobbit’s footprints. Pippin’s, I think. He is smaller than the other. And look at this!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The truth was that I had turned off the big highway 104 and into the smaller roads because the traffic was heavy and passing vehicles threw sheets of water on my windshield. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir,” answered Stuart, and his eyes filled with tears, each tear being smaller than a drop of dew. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The smaller the word, the handier it is. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch her grow smaller down the long hall, clutching her handbag, knowing I should turn and run. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Through smaller class sizes and more intense attention given to lagging students, it managed to claw its way into the middle. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was the smaller of the two, a thin boy, but clever. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Its closest genetic relative is a mountain grass called teosinte that looks strikingly different—for one thing, its “ears” are smaller than the baby corn served in Chinese restaurants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were musicians, dramatists, sculptors, dancers, and the practitioners of a hundred other smaller arts, even the lowest art of all: poetry. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Americas form the world’s second-largest landmass, significantly smaller than Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She went into the kitchen and came out with a cardboard box, a little smaller than the shoe box for Papa’s work boots. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was true; his father had just hired two apprentices and contracted work out to smaller smiths. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The big towns are getting bigger and the villages smaller. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The islands were too small for awe, and a longship smaller still. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Attendants carried pitchers of wine around the room, and on a smaller dais directly facing the entrance, musicians were playing. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl even smaller than me runs toward us before she bursts into moths that fly into my hair and make me near jump right out of my skin. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Two SS men were beating a child with clubs, a girl smaller than Helena, and then an older man with a beard came tumbling out the doorway of a warehouse like he’d been thrown. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The smaller silver Volkswagen was on its side in front of it, a heap of twisted metal that I barely recognized. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

You can conceal all manner of interesting weaponry beneath it if you are clever, and a smaller assortment if you are not. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If we use smaller carpets, our approximation gets better and better. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Here’s a tip. That one’s smaller, but he's a fighter. I’m putting my money there.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father picked up the second, smaller envelope and slid it over the table to me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Got one eye a little smaller than the other. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Are there smaller, subtler, easier ways to make something stick? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Incidentally, Newsweek once stated that the chances of a college- educated single woman over thirty-five getting married were smaller than her chances of being killed by a terrorist. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carried over the cleaned latrine bucket and a smaller bucket half filled with water for washing up. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Tab’s face was smaller without the cotton in her mouth. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It is imperative to remember that the first time the Igbo people were massacred, albeit on a much smaller scale than what has recently occurred, was in 1945. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was someone standing behind the Conte, smaller than him, dressed in black from head to toe, their face hidden beneath a hood. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Were going to fine-tune the musical numbers this morning. Big ensemble numbers first, and then we’ll split into smaller groups. We break for pizza at noon, and after that, we run through the whole caboodle.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

"Why can't one of you give me a smaller waist? My numbers are bigger than yours." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In all this long time that had passed, what I knew of him had only gotten smaller. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hoisted out a smaller, metal box lying within the pine coffin. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She kept an herb garden for her “medicinals,” as she called them, and a much smaller vegetable garden than Ma Charles’s, but she had no hard, fast rules about where everything came from. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps he has been longing for a tiny home—something smaller, of course, than Hill House; perhaps he will come home with you.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The two countries struggled for supremacy using political maneuvering, stockpiling weapons, and fighting “proxy” wars in other, smaller countries where they didn’t directly engage each other. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Squinting, Kendra could see three boats tied to the narrow pier: two large rowboats, one slightly broader than the other, and a smaller paddleboat. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was smaller and friendlier than most homeowners’ meetings. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The county sheriff’s office was a lot smaller than the police station they’d taken me to after I drove Mr. Rodrigo to the hospital in the school bus. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

They are smaller shells;—and amongst them, booming through the night like an organ, go the great coal-boxes and the heavies. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z